Bodily Concept of Life - an essential subject

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Birth, old age, disease and death are the inevitabilities of this life, and in order to deal with them well, one has get out of the bodily concept of life and understand that one is not the body, but is the soul within. Vedic literature says that the soul migrates from one body to another, life after life, until it achieves liberation from this material world, and for it to achieve that stage, one must engage in pure devotional service to Lord Krishna. Engaging in devotional service will help one to understand transcendental knowledge, and when one has done so, he will realize that there is more to life that just this body. Consequently, he will break out of the bodily concept of life.

Srila Prabhupada's books, lectures, conversations and letters offer a comprehensive presentation of this essential subject as seen in the Vaniquotes Bodily Concept of Life category. An introduction from his books is given below in the following 9 quotes.


Quotes from Srila Prabhupada's books










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