"One who is actually learned, he does not . . . he has no concern of this body. He's concerned with the activities of the soul. So you are speaking of so many things that 'If these my friends die, the, I mean to say, their wives will become widow.' These are all according to the bodily relation you are speaking. And you are posing yourself just like a very learned man, but you are a fool number one, because your whole conception is on the body. Your whole conception of argument with Me was of the body, but you are . . . you are posing himself just as if you are very learned man."
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.
In the Bhāgavata there is a very nice verse in this connection in which it is stated:
- yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke
- sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu bhauma-ijya-dhīḥ
- (SB 10.84.13)
Yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke. Kuṇape means this bag, this bag made of three elements. Now, according to Āyurvedic medical system, this body is made of three elements: kapha, pitta, vāyu. Kapha, pitta, vāyu.