step 1 for spiritual life
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This presentation provides the ABC for spiritual life.TRANSCRIPT
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Learn what they don't teach you at any universityCompiled from the teachings of His Divine Grace Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada
LESSON - 1 - Spirit Soulcomplied by Nitin Mahendru
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Do you remember your body when you were a 2 year old child?
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and your body when you were 10 year old ... and 20 year old ... and 30 ...
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your body has undergone considerable changes ... huh...
and it will continue to change...
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in fact your body is changing every moment ... every second...
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But what is it that is not changing ...
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its YOU
YOU the personnever
changes
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Lets see how do you relate to the things around you?
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I am John.
This is my carThat is my book
This is my handThis is my toe
This is my fingerThis is my body
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You do not say...
I am this handI am this toe
I am this fingerI am this body
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who is this person you call"I"
This "I" has seen all the bodily changes
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but "I" remain the
same"I" am a
person, an individual, an entity ...
a living entity
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"I" have consciousness that spreads across my body
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suddenly on death ... the body has no consciousness ... the "I" is gone within a lightening flash
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who provided that consciousness to the body ... what was so powerful ... where did
that "I" go ...
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that "I" is the
SOUL
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Minute SOUL
..spreads Consciousness
across the body
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The body is just a machinedriven by the soul ...
like a man drives a car.
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"I" am not this body.
"I" am a spirit soul
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As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change. - Bhagavad Gita As it Is 2.13
ABC of spiritual life ...
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eternal
indestructible
imperishable
atomic
unborn undying
immutable
cannot be cut
cannot be burnt
cannot be moistened by water
cannot be withered by wind
insoluble
everlasting
cannot be dried
immovableunchangeable
Properties of a Soul
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Soul has a propensity to ...
Enjoy
it is always seeking pleasure
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The body is not the enjoyer,
but the soul is the enjoyer.
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it is not possible for the body to experience enjoyment...
...without the presence of this
spiritual spark.
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If a man is offered the dead body of a beautiful woman, will he accept it?
No, not a sane one
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Not only was the soul enjoying within the body, but it was maintaining the body.
When the soul leaves, the body
simply deteriorates.
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Every one of us is searching after happiness,
but we do not know what real happiness is.
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Real happiness is that joyous state, where one is situated in boundless transcendental happiness and enjoys himself through transcendental senses.
Real happiness is spiritual happiness
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As we begin to relish spiritual happiness, we proportionately abandon material happiness.