A-B-C-D Of Spiritual Life - Prabhupada 0580

660304 - Lecture BG 02.11 - New York

So anyone who has got conception the identification of this body, he's not a learned man: he's a fool. He may be, in the calculation of academic education, he may be B.A., M.A., Ph.D., D.A.C., or something like, doctors and . . . but if he has got his identification with this body, he's not a learned man according to Bhagavad-gītā. Not only according . . . according to whole Vedic literature. This is the first instruction. This is the . . . if we want to make progress towards spiritual advancement of knowledge, this preliminary knowledge we must have that, "I am not this body." "I am not this body." This is the preliminary standing of spiritual knowledge. This is not advancement. This is simply A-B-C-D, A-B-C-D of spiritual life.