RC PHI 1975-07-13 You Are Reborn At Every Moment
ANNOUNCER: The following is a conversation,
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
recorded on the 13th of July, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
BRAHMĀNANDA: Mr. Manischewitz is becoming life member.
PRABHUPĀDA: Ahhh. Thank you very much. So give him books.
Yes.
BERNARD MANISCHEWITZ: This is fine, thank you very much.
Now you can… I saw you before?
Twice before. Once in Chicago and once in New York.
How are you now?
I’m fine, thank you.
She’s your daughter?
My daughter. My son-in- law. My sleeping grandson.
So make him active like you.
I have a question; may I ask?
Is it sometimes, for the person, possible that a person is reborn in the same body.
Same body? What is that?
Is a person reborn: the same body?
Yes, you are reborn every moment.
You were like this child sometime.
Is this body the same?
Do you think your body is the same when you were a child like that,
lying down on the lap of your mother?
Is the same body?
No, my body is different from a child’s body.
Yes.
So different body means you are changing body every moment, imperceptibly.
That is the medical science.
- Can it sometimes be perceptible? Can a person…? - Perceptibly…
Perceptibly we can understand
that the body is being changed so long you are within this body.
Because, the person, the soul, is not in the body, the body does not change.
Body changes so long the soul is there.
And as soon as the soul goes out of the body, there is no more change.
Is it not perceptible?
- The soul goes out of the body… - There is no more change.
It remains the same.
Same status.
Why?
That means so long the soul is there, changes take place.
Thank you very much.
Yes, any intelligent man will understand this very simple thing,
that so long as the body…,
the soul is within the body, the body is changing.
And as soon as this body…
Just like you are old man,
I am old man, the body is no more possible to be changed;
some other then I’ll have to accept another body.
That is called transmigration.
The modern so-called scientists, philosophers,
they do not understand this plain truth,
and they are passing on as big scientists, big philosopher, misleading public.
Thank you.
- So, give him some prasāda. - Yes.
Thank you [indistinct] [Mr. Manischewitz gives Śrīla Prabhupāda a fruit basket]
Thank you very much. So many fruits you have brought.
All fruit.
Good father; good daughter.
- ŪRMILĀ: Thank you. - Thank you very much; Hare Kṛṣṇa.
PRATYATOṢA: Śrīla Prabhupāda, [indistinct] my son likes pictures.
Pictures of Kṛṣṇa.
Is it all right to give him pictures to play with, or is that too offensive?
Maybe they could be covered in plastic or something?
Not offensive, but it should not be disrespectful.
That, he cannot do that.
He has no sense now.
So better just show him and keep it.
Not have it.
Thank you.
Subtitles by Pratyatoṣa Dāsa, Causelessmercy.com