Inquire About Our Existence As Soul - Prabhupada 1000
680508 - Lecture to Technology Students MIT - Boston
Even you ask a hog that, "You are living in such abominable condition. Let me do you something good," he'll refuse to accept. If you give him something, nice preparation, as we have got in India, halavā, he'll not accept it. He will accept stool, because his body is meant for that purpose, and he will not like any palatable foodstuff. He will like that stool. This is the spell of māyā.
So Kṛṣṇa consciousness means that if we want, if we are actually educated, then we must try to question that, "Why I am suffering?" This is called brahma-jijñāsā. In the Vedānta-sūtra the first aphorism is athāto brahma jijñāsā. One should inquire about his existence as soul, not as body or as mind. Because he is neither body nor mind.