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[[Category:This Is]]
[[Category:Conditional Life]]
[[Category:Everyone]]
[[Category:I Am Thinking - Bodily Concept of Life]]
[[Category:I Am This Body]]
[[Category:Accepting The Body As The Self]]
[[Category:Committing Mistakes]]
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<div id="LectureonSB112LondonAugust161971_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="7" link="Lecture on SB 1.1.2 -- London, August 16, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.1.2 -- London, August 16, 1971">
<div class="heading">Why you are crying that "My son is gone, gone, gone"? "No, no, no. My son is gone." This is illusion. He was all along illusioned to accept this body as his son. But at the time of death, he can understand that "The body was not my son. The son was a different thing which was within the body." So this is conditional life. Everyone is thinking, "I am this body." Everyone is committing mistake. Illusion and mistake.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.1.2 -- London, August 16, 1971|Lecture on SB 1.1.2 -- London, August 16, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So however one man may be great, he must commit mistake. This is called conditional life. There is no man in this world who can say that "I never committed any mistake." Is there any man? No. That is not possible. And he must be illusioned. Illusioned. What is that illusion?</p>
:yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke
:sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu bhauma ijya-dhīḥ
:yat-tīrtha-buddhiḥ salile na karhicij
:janeṣv abhijñeṣu sa eva go-kharaḥ
:([[Vanisource:SB 10.84.13|SB 10.84.13]])
<p>This is illusion. Go-kharaḥ. Go-kharaḥ means animals: cows and asses. What is the fault of the animals? The animals, they cannot take nice instruction. They do not know that the soul is, they are spirit soul. They are not this body. They do not know. So this is called illusion. I am accepting this body as self. I am accepting my father or my son... "Here is my son." What is that? "This body." Now, when the son is dead, he is crying, "My son is gone. My son is gone. Oh, my son, were you have gone?" Well, why you are crying? Here is your son. Here is your son, lying on the floor. Why you are crying that "My son is gone, gone, gone"? "No, no, no. My son is gone." This is illusion. He was all along illusioned to accept this body as his son. But at the time of death, he can understand that "The body was not my son. The son was a different thing which was within the body." So this is conditional life. Everyone is thinking, "I am this body." Everyone is committing mistake. Illusion and mistake.</p>
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