bag of three elements [body]

Go-kharaḥ. Go-kharaḥ means... Go means cows, and kharaḥ means ass. The person is exactly the animal, cows or asses. Who? Now, yasyatma-buddhiḥ kunape tri-dhatuke: "One who has accepted this body as self." Atma-buddhiḥ kunape. This is a bag, the bag of tri-dhatu. According to Ayurvedic medical science this body is working under three elements: kapha, pitta, vayu. Therefore it is called tri-dhatu. So the whole world is going on on this concept of life. They have no spiritual... Even big, big professors, big, big, they also say that "This body is everything. After the body is finished, then everything is finished." But that is not the fact. That is the first spiritual education to understand, that "I am not this body." Aham brahmasmi: "I am spirit soul." And Krsna begins this preliminary education in the Bhagavad-gita:    (More...)