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Prabhupāda: Any question? [break] ...just like this body to another body. That body may not be human body. There are …

Devotee (1): Prabhupāda? How long will it take for the soul to transfer from one body to the next body?

Prabhupāda: Within a second. Because the soul is transferred through mind, intelligence and ego. So suppose you can study your …

Devotee (2): Śrīla Prabhupāda, in one of the verses it states that taking birth means accepting this body as oneself.

Prabhupāda: Hmm?

Devotee (2): And does this mean that liberation means simply one understands he is not this body? Does that means …

Prabhupāda: That is the beginning of knowledge, jñānam. Then you have to develop this knowledge. Then if you act that …

Indian man: Prabhupāda, if we chant... When we chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, we gain happiness, peace of mind, here on earth. …

Prabhupāda: That is not in your hands, long time or short time. That you are dependent on nature. As soon …

Young child: How can I be Kṛṣṇa consciousness?

Prabhupāda: [laughs] He also questions? What... [break] [end]

Prabhupāda:

[Bg. 13.3]

So last night we discussed about the questions by Arjuna to Lord Kṛṣṇa. He had six questions. One question is …

The first answer was there, that Kṛṣṇa said, idaṁ śarīraṁ kaunteya kṣetram ity abhidhīyate [Bg. 13.2]. This body. It is …

Devotee: Farmer?

Prabhupāda: Farmer, yes. The farmer and the field. The farmer knows that "I am working on this farm, and there …

So the whole world is going on on this misconception of life, that "I body." Nobody... He knows "my body," …

So one who understands this fact, that "My father is different from the body of my father," or "I am …

So this is Kṛṣṇa consciousness = if we understand factually that anything which you are using in this world, everything …