Jaya Pataka Swami answers how to feel like the soul rather than the body, using Srila Prabhupada's stories and the car-body metaphor. He explains that realizing the spirit soul brings lasting spiritual happiness, and discusses how hearing and chanting transform consciousness.
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Respectful, oblique senses until your lotus feet. So my question is Prad always mentioning his books. We are not body, we are solo. You also mentioned today in this class. But how I can feel I am not body, I am soul. Always I see man, woman and black, white and Indian, American. So I don't feel I am soul. I feel I am body. So please give your blessings by this question.
See, Karad arrived in Melbourne, Australia.
You see Srila Prabhupada. He arrived in Melbourne, Australia.
The journalists met him at the airport.
The journalists met him at the airport.
They told him you're from India, a poor country.
They told him you're from India. It's a poor country.
You come to Australia. We're a rich country.
You come to Australia. We're a rich country. Country.
What have you come to take from us?
What have you come to take from us?
Prabhupada said I don't come to take anything from you.
Prabhupada said, I haven't come to take anything from you.
I come to save you, my cat and dog life.
I have come to save you from a cat and dog life.
My fellow. Today we are cat and dog.
Then so you stand. You mean we are a cat and dog.
See, what's the difference? What is the difference?
You see what is the difference?
Cat eats anything on the street.
The cat eats anything on the street.
You eat in a hotel, restaurant.
You eat in some hotel restaurant.
Spoon and fork and knife.
Spoon, fork and knife.
Blood or cat sleep anywhere.
And a dog or cat, they sleep anywhere.
They may sleep in a bed.
You may sleep in a bed.
A cat, dog, they have sex anywhere.
A cat, dog, they have sex anywhere.
You may have sex in your house.
You may have sex in your house.
Cat, dog, they defend themselves with their fangs, paws.
The cat and dog, they defend themselves with the fangs, their claws.
You may use machine guns, missiles.
You may use machine guns, missiles.
Recently there was. There's a guy. He shot eight people in a mall.
Recently there was a crazy guy. He shot eight people in a mall in Dallas. In Dallas.
He was shot by the police.
Then he was shot by the police.
Nine people died.
And nine people died.
What? Four.
What? Four?
So anyway.
Anyways. So Srila Prabhupada said.
A human being, a sophisticated animal.
So is a human being just a sophisticated animal?
Human being is meant to realize Krishna.
The human being is meant to realize.
Krishna's lives are not in the lobby.
And realize that we're not the body.
You don't have to drive your car, take Care of the car.
You may drive your car. You can take care of the car.
You have the body.
You have the body.
Take care of it.
You take care of it.
But there's a much higher happiness but.
There is a much higher happiness to.
See petrol and diesel for your car.
To feed petrol or diesel to your car.
Now the electric car.
Now there's electric cars.
You plug it in somehow. You can't plug it into yourself.
But you can't plug it into yourself.
Drink petrol.
Drink petrol.
Drink gasoline.
Drink gasoline.
You have to drink, eat food that's appropriate.
You have to eat food, drink that is appropriate.
Just like that. Realize our third soul, that we can have a higher happiness.
So if you realize that we are a spirit soul, then you can have a higher happiness. That you can have a higher happiness.
Actually.
How ranks we got from the body that were less than.
But actually the happiness we get from the body is not very lasting.
It's just a superficial thing.
Actually, Rahvad was saying to his disciples.
Srila Prabhupada was saying, I guess they were his disciples.
In London 1973.
1973.
He said, I want all my Grihasta followers to become paramahamsas.
He said, I want all my Grihasta followers to become paramahamsas.
To realize the difference between the living force and the body.
To realize the difference between the living force and the body.
The swan will take a milk and water mixture. Take out the milk with the water.
The swan, they will drink a milk and water mixture. Drink the milk and leave the water like that.
If you realize you're not the body and take out what is the essential thing, A spiritual thing.
It's like that. If you realize you're not this body and you take out what is the essential thing, the spiritual thing.
Acharya. He was a son of Akira Tagore.
So he said. Also I said that my guru, he was the son of an Acharya.
So I let Allah. God's followers should also have Acharya as children.
So he said, I want also that all my Grihasas should have Acharyas as their children. So today we had Acharya breaking ceremony. We hope we have many Acharyas.
We have to realize that we're more than the body.
But we have to realize that we are more than the body.
We are the spirit soul.
We are the spirit soul.
Bodily experiences there.
Bodily experiences there.
We realize something beyond us.
But we realize there is something beyond this.
Maybe why the Prabhupada repeats all of It Radhawadi, Oradhawade or otherwadde.
So maybe why did Srila Prabhupada repeat so often? We are not this body. We are not this body. We are not this body.
Because in spite of that, we are still thinking I am the body.
Because in spite of that, we are still thinking I am the body.
Our body has senses.
Our body has senses.
Those senses need a certain amount of gratification.
Those senses need a certain amount of gratification.
Senses never satisfy you.
But the senses never satisfy you.
They're just. They tell you when I need some gratification.
They just tell you when you need some gratification.
I need some poor. I need this. I need that.
We need some food. I need this. I need that.
Stop. It's like that rock and roll move. I can't get no satisfaction.
Just like that rock and roll movement. I can't get no satisfaction.
No satisfaction.
There's no satisfaction.
Satisfaction comes from spiritual experience.
But satisfaction comes from a spiritual experience.
You start to think about it. You can realize.
If you just start to think about it, you can realize that you're not the body.
I realized just like in 1972 or 3.
I realized just like in 1972 or.
73, I was a very high feeler.
I had very high fever.
I was suffering from pain.
I was suffering so much pain.
And I listened to Prabhupada's lectures on nectar of devotion.
Then I listened to Srila Prabhupada's lectures on nectar of devotion from Vrindavan.
I felt so much happiness.
I felt so much happiness.
Bodily, I was suffering.
Bodily, I was suffering.
But I felt happiness.
But I felt happiness.
I realized I'm not the body.
Then I realized I'm not the body.
It's not very difficult.
It's not very difficult.
Yes.
More questions. One more. Baby.
I shall.
Grow spiritually. I'm the greatest fool. I cannot grow spiritually without you holding my hand. I'm greatest fool.
So I'm great.
It's full.
I see so much similarity with you in the Himalayas. Those who even try to go trekking, they are humble. Just looking at them. Just looking at you taking under your children, they become humble. They take you so shelter and they find the solace. And they take a shelter and find solace. Feel the bliss. And feel the bliss. And also. I have got a small question. I've got a small question. You mentioned about Gopis and Radharani talking to the trees. You mentioned Gopis and Radharani talking to the trees. Is there any spiritual Significance to that? Is it possible and talk and communicate with the trees?
Of course Krishna knows the language of the trees.
Of course Krishna knows the language of the trees.
I think the third part is that the Gopis are so mad after seeing Krishna.
I think that the purport is that the Gopis were so mad after seeing Krishna.
Even they are asking the trees.
Even they are asking the trees.
It shows sometimes in our Krishna you can have such a strong desire.
This shows that in separation of Ka we can have such a strong desire.
I took sovereign during first time. So aren't you separated from Krishna?
Aren't you separated confirming separation from Krishna.
Aren't you separated from Krishna?
Okay, the question is aren't you separated from Krishna? I am trying to serve him.
So you don't feel separation.
So you can feel separation.
You don't see Krishna because you don't see Krishna.
But we see in the baby form. We see in the deity form.
That helps.
That helps.
Like this. Once in tenure when he saw what's going up.
So like this, when Lord Chaitanya, he saw Lord Jagannath.
He saw him as Prajananda Krishna.
He saw him as Rajendrananda.
And Krishna the son of Nanda Maharaj.
The son of Nanda Maharaj.
That means that so much couriers our ecstasy and serving Krishna.
That means there is so much happiness, so much ecstasy in serving Krishna.
You can even talk to trees.
You can even talk to trees.
You have to really be out there, right?
You have to really be out there to talk to a tree, right?
He's not crazy but he's mad after Ka.
He's not crazy but he's mad after Ka.
We can get a drop of that madness for Krishna that we would have unlimited happiness.
If we can just get a drop of that madness professional, we can get unlimited happiness.
Mubhullah saw him. He said, I wish I had millions of mouths and millions of ears.
Swami said, I wish I had millions of mouths in millions of years to.
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