Fighting Because Of False Identification - Prabhupada 0998

680510b - Lecture at Boston College - Boston

Prabhupāda: Do you think you are body?

Question 4: I believe so.

Prabhupāda: No. You are not this body. If you think . . . (indistinct) . . . do you think, "This is my hand, this is my leg, this is my eyes, this is my head." But you never think . . . we think only mind, we never think of, "What is I?" Is it not a fact? Do you say, "I hand," or, "My hand"? What do you say?

Question 4: My hand.

Prabhupāda: So this is pure . . . (indistinct) . . . that means self-realization. There are rules we have to follow, how to live, then you can understand that, "I am not this body." Ahaṁ brahmāsmi. This is false identification. And all troubles of our material existence is due, due to this false identification. I am thinking, "I am Indian", you are thinking you are, "American", he is thinking, "I am Chinaman," and we are fighting. Is therefore this point and after fighting when the body is dead nobody cares if it is Chinese or American or if it is something; just avoid, that's all. Credit. This is false identification.