0 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,818 RC PHI 1975-07-13 You Are Reborn At Every Moment 1 00:00:15,819 --> 00:00:18,024 ANNOUNCER: The following is a conversation, 2 00:00:18,025 --> 00:00:23,567 with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, 3 00:00:23,568 --> 00:00:46,966 recorded on the 13th of July, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 4 00:00:46,967 --> 00:00:49,004 BRAHMĀNANDA: Mr. Manischewitz is becoming life member. 5 00:00:49,005 --> 00:00:51,572 PRABHUPĀDA: Ahhh. Thank you very much. So give him books. 6 00:00:51,573 --> 00:00:56,157 Yes. 7 00:00:56,158 --> 00:00:58,420 BERNARD MANISCHEWITZ: This is fine, thank you very much. 8 00:00:58,421 --> 00:01:03,081 Now you can… I saw you before? 9 00:01:03,082 --> 00:01:07,648 Twice before. Once in Chicago and once in New York. 10 00:01:07,649 --> 00:01:09,174 How are you now? 11 00:01:09,175 --> 00:01:11,259 I’m fine, thank you. 12 00:01:11,260 --> 00:01:12,406 She’s your daughter? 13 00:01:12,407 --> 00:01:21,038 My daughter. My son-in- law. My sleeping grandson. 14 00:01:21,039 --> 00:01:25,872 So make him active like you. 15 00:01:25,873 --> 00:01:28,781 I have a question; may I ask? 16 00:01:28,782 --> 00:01:35,110 Is it sometimes, for the person, possible that a person is reborn in the same body. 17 00:01:35,111 --> 00:01:36,872 Same body? What is that? 18 00:01:36,873 --> 00:01:40,158 Is a person reborn: the same body? 19 00:01:40,159 --> 00:01:46,105 Yes, you are reborn every moment. 20 00:01:46,106 --> 00:01:49,600 You were like this child sometime. 21 00:01:49,601 --> 00:01:55,195 Is this body the same? 22 00:01:55,196 --> 00:02:01,484 Do you think your body is the same when you were a child like that, 23 00:02:01,485 --> 00:02:03,947 lying down on the lap of your mother? 24 00:02:03,948 --> 00:02:06,788 Is the same body? 25 00:02:06,789 --> 00:02:09,146 No, my body is different from a child’s body. 26 00:02:09,147 --> 00:02:09,986 Yes. 27 00:02:09,987 --> 00:02:21,270 So different body means you are changing body every moment, imperceptibly. 28 00:02:21,271 --> 00:02:23,388 That is the medical science. 29 00:02:23,389 --> 00:02:29,681 - Can it sometimes be perceptible? Can a person…? - Perceptibly… 30 00:02:29,682 --> 00:02:32,551 Perceptibly we can understand 31 00:02:32,552 --> 00:02:37,923 that the body is being changed so long you are within this body. 32 00:02:37,924 --> 00:02:52,216 Because, the person, the soul, is not in the body, the body does not change. 33 00:02:52,217 --> 00:02:55,900 Body changes so long the soul is there. 34 00:02:55,901 --> 00:03:04,008 And as soon as the soul goes out of the body, there is no more change. 35 00:03:04,009 --> 00:03:07,221 Is it not perceptible? 36 00:03:07,222 --> 00:03:11,956 - The soul goes out of the body… - There is no more change. 37 00:03:11,957 --> 00:03:13,564 It remains the same. 38 00:03:13,565 --> 00:03:16,618 Same status. 39 00:03:16,619 --> 00:03:19,375 Why? 40 00:03:19,376 --> 00:03:26,332 That means so long the soul is there, changes take place. 41 00:03:26,333 --> 00:03:29,499 Thank you very much. 42 00:03:29,500 --> 00:03:34,375 Yes, any intelligent man will understand this very simple thing, 43 00:03:34,376 --> 00:03:40,293 that so long as the body…, 44 00:03:40,294 --> 00:03:45,684 the soul is within the body, the body is changing. 45 00:03:45,685 --> 00:03:48,757 And as soon as this body… 46 00:03:48,758 --> 00:03:49,988 Just like you are old man, 47 00:03:49,989 --> 00:03:56,836 I am old man, the body is no more possible to be changed; 48 00:03:56,837 --> 00:04:02,852 some other then I’ll have to accept another body. 49 00:04:02,853 --> 00:04:06,369 That is called transmigration. 50 00:04:06,370 --> 00:04:10,206 The modern so-called scientists, philosophers, 51 00:04:10,207 --> 00:04:13,916 they do not understand this plain truth, 52 00:04:13,917 --> 00:04:26,365 and they are passing on as big scientists, big philosopher, misleading public. 53 00:04:26,366 --> 00:04:27,491 Thank you. 54 00:04:27,492 --> 00:04:29,588 - So, give him some prasāda. - Yes. 55 00:04:29,589 --> 00:04:33,942 Thank you [indistinct] [Mr. Manischewitz gives Śrīla Prabhupāda a fruit basket] 56 00:04:33,943 --> 00:04:38,655 Thank you very much. So many fruits you have brought. 57 00:04:38,656 --> 00:04:42,388 All fruit. 58 00:04:42,389 --> 00:04:44,748 Good father; good daughter. 59 00:04:44,749 --> 00:04:47,776 - ŪRMILĀ: Thank you. - Thank you very much; Hare Kṛṣṇa. 60 00:04:47,777 --> 00:04:53,501 PRATYATOṢA: Śrīla Prabhupāda, [indistinct] my son likes pictures. 61 00:04:53,502 --> 00:04:55,498 Pictures of Kṛṣṇa. 62 00:04:55,499 --> 00:04:59,225 Is it all right to give him pictures to play with, or is that too offensive? 63 00:04:59,226 --> 00:05:07,048 Maybe they could be covered in plastic or something? 64 00:05:07,049 --> 00:05:14,122 Not offensive, but it should not be disrespectful. 65 00:05:14,123 --> 00:05:16,470 That, he cannot do that. 66 00:05:16,471 --> 00:05:19,121 He has no sense now. 67 00:05:19,122 --> 00:05:22,214 So better just show him and keep it. 68 00:05:22,215 --> 00:05:26,138 Not have it. 69 00:05:26,139 --> 00:05:40,116 Thank you. 70 00:05:40,117 --> 00:05:40,118 Subtitles by Pratyatoṣa Dāsa, Causelessmercy.com