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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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I have got a different type of field, and I have to work on it and reap the result out of it and suffer pains and pleasure. That is already settled up. As soon as I have got a particular type of body, my pains and pleasures are already settled up. Already settled. You cannot make any improvement or degradation.
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[[Vanisource:720405 - Lecture BG 13.02 - Melbourne|720405 - Lecture BG 13.02 - Melbourne]]
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Dogs and cats, they have no idea that the dog is not this body. It is a soul also. It has taken a dog's body. Cat is also a soul, but by his karma, by his destiny, by his past work, he has to accept this body. A tree, that is also a soul, but by his past karma or action, he has taken this body of the tree. So we should understand from the authority, as Kṛṣṇa says, that idaṁ śarīraṁ kṣetram: "It is a field. It is a concession or . . ." Field is exactly the term. "Field of work," as we say generally, "in the field of activities." So it is field. And I have given a chance to occupy this field and act accordingly.

Try to understand. I have got a different type of field, and I have to work on it and reap the result out of it and suffer pains and pleasure. That is already settled up. As soon as I have got a particular type of body, my pains and pleasures are already settled up. Already settled. You cannot make any improvement or degradation.

Therefore śāstra says that . . . Vedic literature says that:

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:sukham aindriyakaṁ daityā
:deha-yogena dehinām
:sarvatra labhyate . . .
:yathā duḥkham ayatnataḥ 
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These are very important instructions. Prahlāda Mahārāja says . . . he was instructing his class friends—he was a five-years-old boy—and he said: "My dear friends," that, "the material happiness . . ." Material happiness means sense gratification. This is material happiness. Everyone is materialistic, or materially advanced, means he has got better facility for satisfying the senses. That is material life. And spiritual life means that he does not satisfy his own senses, but he satisfies the senses of God. That is spiritual life.
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