“Press Interview at Muthilal Rao’s House”

Prabhupada, August 17, 1976, Hyderabad: Yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke [SB 10.84.13]. If one is identifying with this body, “I am this body which is made of three elements, kapha, pitta, vayu…” Yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke. Tri-dhatuke, this combination of three elements. Sa eva go-kharah [SB 10.84.13]. He’s animal. So practically now in this age especially, everyone is identifying with this body.

That is the basic principle of nationalism, communism, or this “ism” or that “ism.” The bodily conception of life. And according to Vedic version, anyone who is identifying with this body, he is animal. So under the circumstances—(aside:) Hare Krishna—we are trying to revive the spiritual education of the human society. That is Krishna consciousness movement. What is spirit soul, what is its identification, what is God, what is our relationship with Him, how to work on that plan. Then we become happy. Otherwise you may make various plan on material basis, it will never be successful and there is no question of happiness. Because the basic principle is lost. Apasyatam atma-tattvam grhesu grha-medhinam [SB 2.1.2] This was spoken by Sukadeva Gosvami to Maharaja Pariksit, that srotavyadini rajendra nrnam santi sahasrasah [SB 2.1.2].
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