Inquiring About Our Spiritual Existence - Prabhupada 0986

680508 - Lecture to Technology Students MIT - Boston

So long one does not inquire about his spiritual existence . . . every one of us is born ignorant, because we do not know what is our real identity. Generally, we accept that "I am this body," but actually I am not this body. These things can be understood very easily. Suppose you are seeing all along a friend. All of a sudden he dies and you say, "My friend is gone." Well, your friend is lying there with all the body, hands, legs, everything. He's lying there. Why do you say that your friend is gone? Then you have never seen your friend. You have seen only his bodily structure. That's all.