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The modern civilization is suffering from this defect, that they are not inquisitive about the Brahman. They are simply... Just like cats and dogs, they are interested with this body and the bodily necessities of life. They do not know beyond that. That is the defect. The other day in Caracas some psychiatrists came. Their question was that "The problems of the world are increasing, so what is your prescription to solve these problems?" So the problem is very easy to be solved. I gave the example that this body is there, and there is something which is moving the body: living force. So that living force is the driver of the body, and the body is also described in the Bhagavad-gita as a machine. It is... Actually it is a machine.    (More...)

Yantra means machine. So we are seated on this machine. This is the knowledge. The person who is seated in this car, or the machine, nobody knows. There are so many advancement of knowledge department, but where is the department to understand that the living force which is driving this machine, what is that living force? How it is working? There is no enquiry and no education. Therefore this education has no value. They do not know what is education. Education means to enquire about the living force which is moving this body. That is education. This is not education, that we have manufactured nice car or nice machine. That is called craftsmanship. That is not education. Just like one electrician, he knows how to join the two wire and bring current. In India it is called mistri. Mistri means worker. Because he knows that technical art how to bring electric current, that does not mean he is educated. Education is different thing. The worker, they are just working so many wonderfully, but that does not mean they are educated. That is... In Sanskrit it is called... What is called? The English is "craftsmanship." He knows the art, how to do it.    (More...)

"Isvara, the Supreme Lord, God, is situated in everyone's heart, and He is directing the travel, or wandering, of the living entity." How? Yantrarudhani: "sitting on the machine of this body." And who has supplied this machine? Mayaya: "the material nature." The material nature, according to the order of God, has given me-you or me or anyone, the cats, dogs-a particular type of machine, this body. And the living entity is driving the machine or driving the car, and God, the Supersoul, is reminding him, "You wanted to enjoy like this? Now you drive your car in this way. You drive your... You wanted to eat everything without any discrimination? Now I have given you the car of a hog. Now you go and eat the stool." And he is very glad. He is enjoying. He is enjoying. He is thinking, "I am eating very nice thing." This is going on. Nana joni sada phire, kadarjya bhaksana kore, tara janma adhah-pate jaya. Narottama dasa Thakura is singing that "Those who have taken this path of fruitive activities, they are forced to accept different forms of life and eat all abominable things, and thus he is lost in this material world."    (More...)

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, yantrarudhani 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...)

Therefore the sastric injunction is, Vedic injunction, that tad-vijnanartham sa gurum eva abhigacchet [Mundaka Upanisad 1.2.12]. If you want to know transcendental knowledge, tad-vijnana... Tad-vijna... It is also vijnana. Actually, human life is meant for understanding tad-vijnana. Tad-vijnana means transcendental knowledge, not material knowledge, bodily. Bodily... Even a medical practitioner, he does not know, he has no knowledge of the spirit soul. He simply studies the mechanical arrangement of the body. The body's a big machine made by nature. It is called yantra. Actually it is a machine. In the Bhagavad-gita it is said,    (More...)

Yantrarudhani mayaya. This body is machine. The..., those who are very much attached to this machine, for them, the yoga system is recommended because... One who is very much in the conception of the body, so they have been taught just to concentrate the mind, some practice, some gymnastic, so that mind may be concentrated and he can focus the mind towards Visnu, Lord Visnu. Real purpose is to understand Visnu, the Supreme. So the yoga system is therefore a mechanical arrangement. But the bhakti system is above the machine, above this mechanical arrangement. That is... Therefore it is called tad-vijnana. The mechanical understanding is material, and above that, tad-vijnana.    (More...)

So actually, we have discussed already, we are simply under some machine. Bhramayan sarva-bhutani yantrarudhani [Bg 18.61]. A machine is manufactured immediately. Just like here, medical men, they also manufacture some skeleton according to the requirement of the patient, so this body is manufactured by the supervision of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the ingredients given by material nature, and I am put into the machine. This is my position. As I desire to enjoy... Actually, I haven't got to enjoy or reject anything. I am put into a certain type of machine, and I have to go or work. Actually, I do not also work. The work is also going on by different agents. I am simply put into it just to satisfy my desires as I wanted. Ye yatha mam prapadyante tams tathaiva bhajamy aham [Bg 4.11]. Bhajamy aham. Krsna is so kind that He has given us the chance of enjoying.    (More...)

Prabhupada: You call in any way, but the fact is this, that there is something when, in contact with that something, the matter grows. Otherwise it doesn't grow. That we call spirit soul. You may call it something else. That is a different thing. You can call in a different name, but matter grows not automatically. There must be in touch something with matter. Then it grows. This is a fact.    (More...)

Brahmananda: The body is compared to a machine.    (More...)

Prabhupada: Not... It is machine, not compared. It is machine. Actually it is machine.    (More...)

Brahmananda: But then it cannot grow, because a machine does not grow.    (More...)

Ambarisa: So it is changing every second.    (More...)

Prabhupada: Yes. Just like this is a car, machine, but if I want a bigger car, that means another car, not this car is growing. Suppose sometimes you get baby car. That is not sufficient; I want big car. So you cannot say that increase the baby car and it becomes a sedan car. That means you require another, big car. A child, a child cannot have sex in that body. The same child, when he wants to enjoy sex, he must have another body. So these rascals, they cannot understand how different machines has been supplied by nature. It is supplying.    (More...)

Prabhupada: As soon as you want another machine, immediately it is... Svabhaviki bala-kriya ca. Parasya saktir vividhaiva [Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.8]. His potencies, His merit, is acting. Not His merit; means the nature's merit, prakrteh kriyamanani [Bg 3.27], it is working so swiftly, you cannot see. The same example as I give always, that the movies spool, each is a different picture, but when it is put into the projector, you cannot understand. But actually on the background there are different pictures. So if ordinary, I mean to say, cinematograph, cinema picture, we can make like that, how much nicely and subtle machine is there, it is being done-that you do not know. But each body, each second, you are being supplied a different body.    (More...)

Brahmananda: Like each of the different frames.    (More...)

Brahmananda: On the film, each frame is different.    (More...)

Brahmananda: Each picture. But what appears to be a complete...    (More...)

Prabhupada: So in one picture you will find hand is here, another picture hand is here, another hand is here. But when they are taken together, it means the hand moves. The example is there. Each picture is a different picture. As soon as you stop it, the hand is here. That's all.    (More...)

Ambarisa: So each second the body is a little different?    (More...)

Prabhupada: Yes. Each second the body is different. But what this rascal will do? How they will know? They have no brain. All dull-headed materialistic, mudha. They cannot understand this. But this is the process going on. I want, for certain thing, I want a different body. Immediately nature supplies.    (More...)

Yadubara: Even within this body?    (More...)

Ambarisa: The machine is changing at every second.    (More...)

Prabhupada: You say two things: "growing" and "machine." So that is incompatible. Machine cannot grow.    (More...)

Brahmananda: ...many machines. You get another machine, another one, and another and another.    (More...)

Prabhupada: So I have changed so many machines, so death means another machine. Where is the difficulty?    (More...)

Ambarisa: When the spirit soul leaves the body, the body continues to change? It deteriorates?    (More...)

Prabhupada: No, no. Spirit soul is changing machine. That is explained in the Bhagavad-gita. So when this machine is finished, and another machine.    (More...)

Ambarisa: The old machine continues to change after the spirit soul leaves? It deteriorates? The old machine deterior..., it breaks down.    (More...)

Prabhupada: Yes, yes. You give up one machine and you take another machine. [break]    (More...)

Devotee (1): ...one goes into a subtle machine?    (More...)

Prabhupada: That example is given, vasamsi jirnani yatha vihaya [Bg 2.22]. Just like your dress, when it is useless, you throw it away and take another dress. It is stated in the Bhagavad-gita. Vasamsi jirnani yatha vihaya grhnati narah aparani. You accept another set of dress. Clearly explained. [break] ...also very scientific. Just like according to your last life's desires, you have got this dress, this body. So it is going on, going on, going on. Now you are creating another set of desires in this life. So you require a different dress. Then you begin another satisfaction of your desires.    (More...)

Who is accepting another body. The Darwin's theory is that the body is changing to another body. That is nonsense. That is not the fact. The soul is transmigrating from one body to another. That is knowledge. This is fact. So we can discuss if it is needed, but this is the fact. There is the soul, and these eight elements, material elements, they are outer covering. That you have got... As you have got shirt and coat, the shirt is the inner covering, the coat is outer covering. Similarly, the body is made of earth, water, air, fire. This lump of matter is nothing but distribution of the material elements. Just like we make some machine by manipulating the material elements, this is also just like a machine. And it is stated here in the Bhagavad-gita, yantrarudhani mayaya. We have been given this machine to move. By whom it is given? By maya, by the illusory energy.    (More...)