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What is the difference of changing our body during our lifetime and at death?

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"What is the difference of changing our body during our lifetime and at death"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

I have said many times. Just like you are using this shirt, and it is not usable, you throw it and again accept another. (break) ...understand this is a difficult problem. (laughs).
Morning Walk -- July 3, 1975, Denver:

Prabhupāda: ...July 3rd, July 4th not the same body.

Kuruśreṣṭha: Still, they will say that there's still no reason...

Prabhupāda: They will say so many nonsense. Who is going to take it? They are rejected as nonsense. Anyone who is a speculator, he is a nonsense because he has no standard knowledge. Next day they will say, "Oh, no, this is not. This is." They are doing that. That is not knowledge. (break)

Devotee (1): We were discussing in Bhagavad-gītā class last night that during our life we are changing our bodies so many different times, and at the time of death we are also changing our body to another body.

Prabhupāda: Yes, you get another body.

Devotee (1): What is the difference of changing our body during our lifetime and at death?

Prabhupāda: This is... I have said many times. Just like you are using this shirt, and it is not usable, you throw it and again accept another. (break) ...understand this is a difficult problem. (laughs) (break)

Ambarīṣa: ...second we are dying.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Dying means changing body, that's all.

Ambarīṣa: So we're changing bodies all the time.

Prabhupāda: It is going on. You will find it. A creeper is growing. Today she, it is, leaf has grown so much, and next moment you'll see, it has grown so much.

Yadubara: (break) ...that asparagus that you eat, Śrīla Prabhupāda. That will grow two inches in one night.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Yadubara: Very quickly. (break)

Kuruśreṣṭha: ...the same body, but just the parts are changing. They say that it's not actually the whole body that's changing, but just you're changing parts like...

Prabhupāda: That is nonsense. "Parts are changing, the body is not changing." Just see. (laughter) Just rascaldom. "Parts are changing, body is not changing."

Suraśreṣṭha: Just like a car—you take spark plugs and put new spark plugs in, but still, it's the same car.

Prabhupāda: When the whole parts are changing, then where is the original body? When the whole parts are changed, then it is to be concluded the body is changed. There are so many parts. If this is changed, this is changed, this is changed, then where is the original body? (laughter) Just see their rascaldom.

Yadubara: Parts make up the whole.

Prabhupāda: Yes. "The parts are changing, the whole is not changing." Just see. Therefore we say rascals only.

Suraśreṣṭha: They say that the brain stays the same, that the brain cells never...

Prabhupāda: Therefore take them as rascal. Everything is changing.

Page Title:What is the difference of changing our body during our lifetime and at death?
Compiler:Marc, Rishab
Created:14 of Jul, 2011
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