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Hayagriva, Philosophy Discussions: Well as, as to the nature of the world, Schopenhauer is vague, but he sees material life as basically irrational and whimsical.
Prabhupada: Yes, that’s a fact. Therefore you are changing body. Material mind is not fixed up; rejecting and accepting. This is going on. That Mayavada philosophers say as well. The Buddhists also say this material pains and pleasure is account to the material combination.
It does not say material combination of this body. Soul is different, but he did not say because during his time they could not understand it. So he did not say that there is soul, but he simply said that this body is combination of material thing; that is the cause of pains and pleasure. So dismantle it.
Let earthly part of the body go to earth, watery part of the body, let it… Nirvana, that is. Then I become zero, sunyavadi. Because he does not get any information of the soul, he takes account of the body. Analyze the body and it is composition of earth, water, air, fire, like that. So when it is dismantled, then where is pains and pleasure? That is his philosophy, sunyavada, make it zero.
Hayagriva: He sees the pleasure of the world as ultimately frustrating. Eternal becoming endless flux characterizes the revelation of the inner nature of will.
Finally, the same thing shows itself in human endeavors and desires, which always delude us by presenting their satisfaction as the final end of will. As soon as we attain to them, they no longer appear the same. Therefore they soon grow stale or forgotten, and though not ultimately disowned, are yet always thrown aside as vanished illusions.
Prabhupada: So this is going on. He is getting, therefore, different types of body.
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