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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Lectures" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures"><h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonBG91MelbourneApril191976_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="298" link="Lecture on BG 9.1 -- Melbourne, April 19, 1976" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.1 -- Melbourne, April 19, 1976">
<div class="heading">That is to be understood. You can say, "My blood," but you don't say, "I blood." That is foolishness.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.1 -- Melbourne, April 19, 1976|Lecture on BG 9.1 -- Melbourne, April 19, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guest (3) (young man): I, I... I'm talking about, from a Christian point of view...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, don't put any question from any particular... You try to understand the philosophy. If "two plus two equal to four," that doesn't matter whether he's a Christian or Hindu or Muslim. Two plus two equal to four everywhere.</p>
<p>Guest (3): All right. Well, the point is that you say or members of the society say that "I am not this body," and in Christianity this is my body and this is my blood.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: "This is my blood." You are not blood. That is all right.</p>
<p>Guest (3): Right.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: "This is my blood," you can say, just like I say, "This is my body." But you are not this body. If I say this, "My microphone," does it mean that I am microphone? Why do you put this question?</p>
<p>Guest (3): Well, that's all right. That's all very well.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So that is to be understood. You can say, "My blood," but you don't say, "I blood." That is foolishness.</p>
<p>Guest (3): Yeah, I didn't say, "I blood."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then you say, "My blood." Therefore the blood is different from you. As soon as say, "My blood," then "my house," then house is different from you.</p>
<p>Guest (3): The point is that it makes it one. It makes body and soul one if one says, "This is my body and this is my blood."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No.</p>
<p>Guest (3): And in this society I've heard people saying that "This is not my body," so, okay...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It requires little intelligence. Just like you are breathing. So when the breathing is stopped, you say, "The man is dead." But what is this breathing? This breathing is nothing but a little portion of air passing. So you can artificially make that arrangement, air passing, but does it mean that it will bring life? So therefore breathing is not life. Life is different from breathing. You have to study scientifically. Because breathing can be produced. This respiration of... Even in the, what is called, bellow there is breathing, "Hans, phans, hans, phans..." (laughter) Does it mean life? No. Therefore you have to study every part of your body. You'll find there is no life.</p>
<p>Guest (3): Well...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So therefore life is different from this combination of matter. This is intelligence.</p>
<p>Guest (3): Then... I do understand it. (break)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: ...that you are different from your body. Analyze your body part by part. Then you come to understand. Don't jump over. Your question was: "The body's not different from the life." That was his question.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So it is different. You analyze this body. You'll find in every part of body. Take this and you study it. You'll find no living force there. So how the living force is equal or identical with the body?</p>
<p>Guest (3): All right, I agree. I...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then you agree. Then you accept that the soul is different from the body.</p>
<p>Guest (3): Yeah, I understand. So you call that Kṛṣṇa. But God is God. God's name is God, not Kṛṣṇa. You may call Him Kṛṣṇa if you want.</p>
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