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If somebody no longer identifies with the body, what is his perception of a painful condition?

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Conversations and Morning Walks

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

He tolerates. He knows. Just like the same example. You are not the car . If your car is smashed, although you feel sorry, but you know that "I am not a car." That is the position.
Morning Walk -- December 17, 1973, Los Angeles:

Prabhupāda: Ahaṁ mameti janasya moho 'yam (SB 5.5.8). This is illusion. He is not that, but he is thinking, "I am this." That is animalism. The animal is always thinking that "I am this body."

Girirāja: So if somebody no longer identifies with the body, what is his perception of a painful condition?

Prabhupāda: He tolerates. He knows. Just like the same example. You are not the car . If your car is smashed, although you feel sorry, but you know that "I am not a car." That is the position.

Rūpānuga: So the pain is experienced by the consciousness that is spread all over the body?

Prabhupāda: That is false. That is called illusion. You are not painful, but you are thinking that "I am painful." But that is illusion.

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Page Title:If somebody no longer identifies with the body, what is his perception of a painful condition?
Compiler:Mangalavati, Rishab
Created:03 of Mar, 2011
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