Prabhupāda: Central point is to understand God. People have become so foolish. They have forgotten to know about God, know about himself, what he is. Everyone is under the impression that "I am this body," which he's not. He's spirit soul. They're so much in ignorance, and there is no education. Even big, big professors. Prof. Kotofsky, in Russia, he told me, "Swamiji, after this body's finished, everything is finished." That is not the fact.
Under the impression (Conversations)
Conversations and Morning Walks
1973 Conversations and Morning Walks
Everyone is under the impression that "I am this body," which he's not. He's spirit soul.
Interviews with Macmillan and various English Reporters -- September 12, 1973, London: