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If we study Bhagavad-gita very carefully, we can understand the philosophy of life correctly

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"If we study Bhagavad-gītā very carefully, we can understand the philosophy of life correctly"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre (BG 2.20). This is the authoritative statement, that I am not annihilated on account of my body being annihilated. So they bury the body, or giving some name, some tomb, that is the business of my relatives, my friends, my family members. But as I am, I am aloof from this. I have accepted another body. And then begin my life in a different way. So people do not try to understand this science, how it is happening. That is all described in the Bhagavad-gītā. If we study Bhagavad-gītā very carefully, we can understand the philosophy of life correctly.

Prabhupāda: Yes, that means in the past we existed, at present we are existing, and in future we shall continue to exist, individually. And that is our experience. I existed in the past as a child. So I existed as a person. I existed as a young man, so I existed as a person. I am an old man now; now I am existing as a person. Naturally, the conclusion is when I shall change this body, I shall remain as a person. How we can change this conclusion? I am continuing to exist as a person. I am still existing as a person. And here is the authority, He says in the future also you remain as a person. So there is time factor, past, present and future, and in all these time factors I live as a person. Not only I, but also Kṛṣṇa. He says: "I also remain as person. You, Arjuna, you also person, I am also person, and all these soldiers and kings who have assembled, they are also person." So our personality continues, past, present and future.

Mr. Davis: Well then when you die and you are buried, they bury your body.

Prabhupāda: My body you bury, but I go away.

Mr. Davis: They bury my body whatever, they bury your name, they write it on a stone maybe, but they bury your name, they bury your memory. What survives, I am going to ask, and then what survives—no memory, no body, no name—is the spirit.

Prabhupāda: That is soul. Spirit soul.

Mr. Davis: And the spirit would not necessarily have the ability to point and say: "I used to be in that body or that body or that."

Prabhupāda: No, that he forgets. Death means forgetfulness. Just like accepting that I was existing in previous life, but now I do not remember. This is death. But I am existing, that's a fact. The same example: Everyone knows that he was existing as a child, he was existing as a young man. So because it is short period, I remember. But when the body is completely changed, the atmosphere is completely changed, we forget. But actually I exist continually. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre (BG 2.20). This is the authoritative statement, that I am not annihilated on account of my body being annihilated. So they bury the body, or giving some name, some tomb, that is the business of my relatives, my friends, my family members. But as I am, I am aloof from this. I have accepted another body. And then begin my life in a different way. So people do not try to understand this science, how it is happening. That is all described in the Bhagavad-gītā. If we study Bhagavad-gītā very carefully, we can understand the philosophy of life correctly.

Page Title:If we study Bhagavad-gita very carefully, we can understand the philosophy of life correctly
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-10-11, 11:32:37
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1