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These hands and legs are there because originally we are spirit soul, we have got hands and legs. This is the proof that we are not formless

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"these hands and legs are there because originally we are spirit soul, we have got hands and legs. This is the proof that we are not formless."

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Because you have got your hands, your coat has assumed the hands. So this material dress . . . these hands and legs are there because originally we are spirit soul, we have got hands and legs. This is the proof that we are not formless.

Devotee (3): Does that mean that the spirit soul in my body is shaped like this body?

Prabhupāda: Yes. Spirit soul, he has got hands and legs and everything. That is body. Form means hands and legs, not without form. The same example: because I have got my form, therefore my dress . . . this body is described as dress. The dress has got two hands, just like your coat has got two hands; actually, coat, the cloth has no hands, legs. That is impossible. But because you have got your hands, your coat has assumed the hands. So this material dress . . . these hands and legs are there because originally we are spirit soul, we have got hands and legs. This is the proof that we are not formless. With form. Because this body has been described as dress, outward dress, different dress. Just like we are, somebody white, somebody yellow, somebody black, somebody . . . this is dress. But actually, we spirit soul, we are one. It is by dress we are fighting. "You are Englishman," "I am German," "I am this," "I am Indian," "I am that," "I am man," "I am woman." So many fighting on account of this dress. So when you become dressless, that is the spiritual platform.

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