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Those who are learned, they see that "Here is a learned brahmana, and here is a dog, and here is a hog, and here is a dog-eater. There is an elephant. There is a cow. So they are in different dresses only, and the real occupier of the dress, or the body..." That is explained, idam sariram kaunteya... What is called? Idam sariram kaunteya ksetram ity abhidhiyate [Bg 13.2]. This is only, we have got... According to different desires, we have got these different types of body, ksetra. Just like field. The cultivator, the farmer, works on the field and gets some result. Similarly, we have got different types of body, and we are working on this body in the bodily concepts of life. That is not advanced life. If we are in the bodily concept of life, that is animal life. When we understand that "I know that I am not this body; I am working with this body," that is knowledge. Abhidhiyate.    (More...)