Baradrāj: Yesterday you gave an example of a man who was lying asleep in bed, and he is transported somewhere in dream, walking on the beach. What is the full . . .? Because we're going to try to make an exhibit of it. So what is the full analogy? Is he actually going to another place by his mind? He's actually transported?
Prabhupāda: The soul is going there. The seer is the same in this gross body or in the subtle bodies. I am in the . . . walking in this gross body, I'm seeing this ocean, and I will leave my gross body in dream, I go to India. So the seer is the same. That is the proof of transmigration. He's dreaming tiger, and he's crying, "Here is a tiger, tiger, tiger," and another man, who is seer of the body, he says, "Where is tiger?" So this is the difference. One is seeing through this gross body, another seeing through the subtle body, but the seer is the same. Transmigration of the soul means when he's seeing through . . . that is practical. The child, when he's seeing through the childish body, he's talking nonsense. The same soul, when he's talking as an elderly person, he's talking beautiful. The seer is the same, simply the glass is changed: sometimes blue, sometimes red. (break) The seer is the same, medium is different. That you have . . . and dead body means the seer is no longer there. It has entered another body. (break)
Pradyumna: . . . when someone is sleeping and dreaming, that the seer has left the gross body?
Prabhupāda: Yes, yes.
Baradrāj: How does the . . . life symptoms. How are the life symptoms maintained in the body?
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Baradrāj: The life symptoms are maintained in the body still?
Prabhupāda: No, life symptoms, there is not. The body's fit; therefore, he comes back again. When the body is not fit, he enters another body. Just like your car you leave. We have come here. Now the car is all right; we go. If it is useless, we don't go; we take another.
Baradrāj: The body is breathing.
Hṛdayānanda: That is like leaving the motor running.
Prabhupāda: They, unless the seer returns back, the body will lie down. That is death. The seer no more comes back, then it is dead.
Hṛdayānanda: Yes, sometimes a man dies in his sleep.
Prabhupāda: Yes. It is death.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So sleeping is like temporary death.
Prabhupāda: Yes. All deaths are temporary. When you change body, you die for seven months. This death is for few hours, and that is for seven months. That's all.
Baradrāj: What happens when he dreams of the spiritual master or Kṛṣṇa?
Prabhupāda: That's all right. Dreaming means he's seeing. The seer is the same.
Rādhā-vallabha: In Hawaii you were saying that they take rest for six months and wake up a dog.
Prabhupāda: Yes. (laughter) (break) . . . a small garden like this, that is called a hanging garden.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. We can walk there in the mornings.
Prabhupāda: Hmm.
Baradrāj: Śrīla Prabhupāda, chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa is considered to be the watering process, and sometimes from chanting, the weeds . . . from watering, the weeds also grow along with devotional service—the weeds of different desires. I don't understand how it is possible that from chanting these weeds grow.
Prabhupāda: Chanting is purifying all material desires. It will take, gradually. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam (CC Antya 20.12). If you are chanting without any offense, then your heart will be cleansed of all material contamination. Harer nāma (CC Adi 17.21).