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Therefore, in the Bhagavad-gita, Krsna first of all begins the constitution of the atma, or spirit soul. He begins. When He began to teach Arjuna Bhagavad-gita, the A-B-C-D lesson was to make him convinced about the soul within the body. That is called atma-tattvam. And nobody knows. Therefore, bahir-artha-maninah: they are accepting this external feature. Just like we have got external feature. We can understand very easily that this body, this body is external feature. Real "I" am within. As soon as I go away from this body, this external feature, as good as the garbage in the street. That they do not understand. They are busy piling garbage. "Bring more garbage, more garbage." And this is the working capacity. Bahir-artha-maninah. They think, "This garbage will save me." Very important question. Apasyatam atma-tattvam [SB 2.1.2]. The atma-tattvam means "I am now within this garbage for the present. And after leaving this, in this garbage, I pile up so many other garbages. And in this way, working uselessly the whole life, then I transmigrate from this body to another garbage body." That I do not know. This is called apasyatam atma-tattvam [SB 2.1.2]. Apasyatam means "not seeing." A means "not," and pasyatam means "seeing, one who sees." He's seeing, "This garbage is everything."
Prabhupada's lecture: |
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare |