Guest (1): Your Divine Grace, you referred to the body as simply matter. Do you believe in a life after death for the body, the human body?
Hanumān: "Do you believe in a life after death for the body?" (break)
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Certainly. This is experienced in this life also. Just like you had a body of a child. That body is finished, but you are existing. You can remember that you had the body of a child, you had a body of a boy, but that body of the child, body of the boy is no longer existing. You are in a different body, but you know that you are existing. That is the proof that after this body, you will have another body. This is the proof. There is no difficulty to understand. As I am still living, in spite of my changing childhood body, babyhood body, boyhood body, youthhood body, so naturally it should be concluded when I give up this body . . .
Actually, I don't give up. The body . . . there are two kinds of bodies. This is gross body, made of the five elements: earth, water, fire air and . . . and there is subtle body: mind, intelligence and ego. Just like we have got shirt and coat. So when we give up this gross body, we are carried by the subtle body to another gross body. So I am not giving up. Actually, I am not giving up this body; I am giving up this . . . just like sometimes you give up the coat, but your underwear remains, and you take up another coat or . . . similarly, my, the subtle body will remain with me so long I am not emancipated or liberated from material condition.