Maharaja Yudhisthira and his younger brothers all attained the spiritual world in the self-same body. Does this mean that they had their spiritual bodies while they were on the earth?

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"Maharaja Yudhisthira and his younger brothers all attained the spiritual world in the self-same body. Does this mean that they had their spiritual bodies while they were on the earth"

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

So that's all right. But not this body. With their spiritual body. Yes.

Lecture on BG 4.14 -- Vrndavana, August 6, 1974:

Jagadīśa: ...Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam there is one śloka which describes that Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira and his younger brothers all attained the spiritual world in the self-same body. Does this mean that they had their spiritual bodies while they were on the earth?

Prabhupāda: Yes, that is possible. They went to heaven, heavenly planet? No? No, where? Where it is?

Jagadīśa: Bhāgavatam, they are, you described that they were going to the Kṛṣṇaloka planet.

Prabhupāda: Hm. So that's all right. But not this body. With their spiritual body. Yes.