Try to understand that within this body there is the soul. The body is called in Sanskrit language, deha. And the soul, which possesses this body, just like I am possessing this body, you are possessing your body. We are all individual persons, soul

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"Try to understand that within this body there is the soul. The body is called in Sanskrit language, it is called deha. And the soul, which possesses this body, just like I am possessing this body, you are possessing your body. We are all individual persons, soul"

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General Lectures

Try to understand that within this body there is the soul. The body is called in Sanskrit language, it is called deha. And the soul, which possesses this body, just like I am possessing this body, you are possessing your body. We are all individual persons, soul. You have got your body, I have got my body, another has got his body. In this way we have got different bodies.

760506 - Lecture - Honolulu

There was a war between two sections of cousin-brothers. So when Arjuna . . . he was one side, and his cousin-brothers was another side. So Arjuna actually came into the battlefield. He said to Kṛṣṇa—Kṛṣṇa was driving his chariot—"My dear Kṛṣṇa, I don't like this war because the other side, they are all my family members, so I do not want to kill them." That was his problem. But the fighting was necessary for some reason that was . . . sometimes fighting is necessary. Not that fighting, you can abolish it. It is not possible. Sometimes it is necessary. Not always; but not for any unreasonable subject matter. This fighting was there, when there was no other way than to fight. Anyway, in that fighting he was not willing to fight, although Kṛṣṇa wanted him to fight. Then at that time he was given instruction on this Bhagavad-gītā.

So he was to first understand that this body, we are not this body. We are different from this body. So the first instruction He gave, that,

dehino 'smin yathā dehe

kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā

tathā dehāntara-prāptir

dhīras tatra na muhyati

(BG 2.13)

It is very instructive verse. Try to understand that within this body there is the soul. The body is called in Sanskrit language, it is called deha. And the soul, which possesses this body, just like I am possessing this body, you are possessing your body. We are all individual persons, soul. You have got your body, I have got my body, another has got his body. In this way we have got different bodies. So we must understand this is the platform of cultural unity, when you understand that "I am not this body." We are unity: economic unity, historical unity, scientific unity—but still we are fighting one another: nation to nation, person to person, individual to individual. There is no unity. The only cause is that they do not know that we are not this body.

But we are spreading the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement for understanding this simple philosophy, that we are not this body. We have to rectify or purify this knowledge that I am this body. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. It is very simple.