- dehino 'smin yathā dehe
- kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā
- tathā dehāntara-prāptir
- dhīras tatra na muhyati
- (BG 2.13)
This is the first education to Arjuna. "My dear Arjuna, you are lamenting so much for your family. You have come to war field, you have to fight, and now you are crying for your family. What is this nonsense?"
So this is the fact. He chastised, that "Your vision is so poor that you are looking after this body."
- aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṁ
- prajñā-vādāṁś ca bhāṣase
- gatāsūn agatāsūṁś ca
- nānuśocanti paṇḍitāḥ
- (BG 2.11)
This is first chastisement, that so far this body is concerned, it is a dead lump of matter, either it is moving or not moving. When there is life, it will move. When there is not life, it does not move. But both cases, it is a lump of matter. Just like the motorcar, when it is going at the speed of hundred miles, and when it is not going, in both the cases it is nothing but a lump of matter. If there's a life . . . the life is the driver. So that is actually vision. One should take care of the driver, of the driver within the car. That is the instruction of Bhagavad-gītā: dehino 'smin yathā dehe (BG 2.13). Asmin dehe. Within this body there is actually life. And therefore we are changing this body on account of presence of this life. In this way there are so many so-called scholars of Bhagavad-gītā, they do not understand even the first lesson actually. Asmin dehe. Dehino 'smin yathā dehe (BG 2.13).
So it is very easy to understand these things. If you have become so dull on account of sinful activities . . . therefore to understand properly, to have clear brain, one has to become pure: no illicit sex, no intoxication, no meat-eating, no gambling. And then you will be, you can learn. And then, when we are advanced, then we shall learn other things also. Paśyanti jñāna-cakṣuṣaḥ (BG 15.9). There are innumerable planets. Each planet is different from the other. This is God's . . . you see on one tree there are millions of leaves, but you cannot find two leaves of the same size or the same . . . this is God's creation. This is God's creation. So how you can expect the same atmosphere in other planets?
So we are very doubtful whether they have gone to the moon planet. From the śāstra it appears they haven’t gone. You can see. Otherwise why they have stopped talking of the moon . . . (indistinct) . . .? (laughter) Finished. They have brought little sand and rocks after spending millions of dollars, and they are satisfied: "Now I have gone to the moon." This kind of bluffing can go on, but we don’t accept it.