& pilot [body & soul]

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Just like in your country I have seen the machine. In the beginning, when I came to your country, I saw some typewriter machine is throw in the garbage. Of course, in India they do not throw; they repair it. But here your repairing cost is very, very high; therefore you throw away. So the machine which is costly, but as it does not work, you throw away-it has no value-similarly, this is also machine. This body is also machine. That is described in the Bhagavad-gita, yantrarūḍhani mayaya [Bg 18.61]. It is a machine given by maya, the material energy. Asat. Just like the aeroplane is also a machine. It has no life, but the life is the pilot. So long the pilot is there, the machine is useful. If there is no pilot, it may stand in the airport for millions of years, it will not fly. Very practical. (More...)

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