Now, the Bhāgavata says that yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke: "If anyone, he's identified with this body made of water, air and fire . . ." And yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke. This is a body made of three things. Now . . . and sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu: "And if one thinks the issues, the by-products of this body, as his own kinsmen . . ." Just like my children, my wife, my relatives, my father, my mother, my brother, my nation, my society—everything is due to this bodily relation. And there are thousands of women loitering in the street of the New York, and suppose I have got some ma . . . bodily connection with you, I call you my wife. And because I have got bodily relation with you, all the children produced by you, they are my children. You see?
So whole thing is . . . the basic principle is wrong, that "I am this body." Now, from the expansion of the body, the whole thing, the whole thing is false. Because I am not this body, so my expansion of body is also not "I am." But whole world is going on on this false impression. The whole world is going on. The fight, the fighting between one nation and another nation—because due to this body.
So yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke. "One who is identified with this body, which is made of water, fire and . . . water, fire and air, and the issues from this body as kinsmen and own men . . ." Yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhā . . . sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu: "And," I mean to say, "attachment, attachment for such issues . . ." And bhauma-ijya-dhīḥ: "And the land from which this body has grown up, that is worshipable."
Now everybody is fighting for the land. "Oh, we are Indian," "We are Pakistani," "We are Vietnamese," "We are American," "We are German." The fighting, so much fighting is going on, the land, for the land. So land, land has become worshipable, so worshipable that one is sacrificed his valuable life for that land. You see? But the land is so dear, why? This body has become grown up from this land. So that is also there, the bodily connection.
So yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu bhauma-ijya-dhīḥ. Bhauma, in the land . . . they have no meaning for God. Now, the Russian philosophy, they have no meaning for God, but they have every meaning for their land. For the land. So land has there identified as worshipable, and they're prepared to sacrifice anything for the land. So yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke: "One who is identified with this body, and one who thinks the bodily offshoots as his own men, and the land from which the body has grown as worshipable," yat-tīrtha-buddhiḥ salile. Yat-tīrtha-buddhiḥ salile.