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When the body changes, Srila Prabhupada, does that mean that also that the real form changes?

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"When the body changes, Srila Prabhupada, does that mean that also that the real form changes"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

No, body changes but the spiritual form is the same.
Morning Walk -- March 15, 1975, Tehran:

Guest: God is seen in the form of the saints.

Prabhupāda: That is another, that is second maybe, but God has got form. That is the conclusion, but we cannot see with the present eyes. That is described, ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ (Brs. 1.2.234). By your, these blunt senses.... Same thing, just like I see you, but I see your body. You see me, my body, and.... But the body is there, and the soul is not there then it is lump of matter and you kick it out, nobody will protest. If a dead body is smashed with your legs or boots, nobody will say (indistinct). But so long the soul is there, if somebody is smashed like that, immediately they will protest. (indistinct). So people have no knowledge about the real form, therefore they say formless.

Devotee: When the body changes, Śrīla Prabhupāda, does that mean that also that the real form changes?

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Devotee: Because the body...

Prabhupāda: No, body changes but the spiritual form is the same.

Devotee: He is always the same. How is it that when our coat, size of the coat, changes because the body grows bigger the size of the coat is bigger?

Prabhupāda: That is spiritual form. You can take.... It can become bigger, smaller, like that.

Devotee: But the form is the same.

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Devotee: What is filling the body is consciousness. The consciousness...

Prabhupāda: You may have a big coat or small coat, overcoat, the form is the same.

Page Title:When the body changes, Srila Prabhupada, does that mean that also that the real form changes?
Compiler:Visnu Murti, Rishab
Created:12 of Oct, 2010
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