Yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke. So anyone who identifies with this body, this bag of these three elements . . . this is a bag. So yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu. And from this bag there are many other bags emanated, just like my children; they are also my different bags, production of this bag. So yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu. One who identifies this bag as "myself," "I am this body, and the result of my body, these kinsmen, children and family, or countrymen or society men, they are my own men," sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu bhauma ijya-dhīḥ . . .
Bhauma ijya-dhīḥ means this earth from which this earthly body has grown up. That means the country, this country. We are fond of our country because from this . . . this American earth my body has developed, or from Indian earth, or this earth of this planet, apart from American or Indian conception of life. So we are human beings of this planet. So we are identifying with this planetary situation. So all these things, they have been very carefully analyzed. And the conclusion has been that yasyātma . . ."One who thinks like that, he is no better than ass and cow." Sa eva go-kharaḥ (SB 10.84.13).
Sa eva go-kharaḥ. Go-kharaḥ. Go means cow, and khara means ass. So actually, if we analyze the present civilization, oh, it is a civilization of go-khara, go-khara, because we are identifying this body: "I am this body." And because this body has got connection with a particular woman, therefore "She is my wife." And because by that combination we have got another production, some children, "They are my children." And because expanded into society, into country and so many things . . . so all these entanglement is there. But actually I am pure soul; I am not this body. As soon as I understand this, then whole thing is vanished. You see? Because if I am not this body, then in relationship with this body, whatever I have expended, my extended selfishness, is at once vanished. Then I am mukta-puruṣa, I am liberated soul.
So Lord Caitanya says by chanting this śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana, I become at once liberated from this misconception of life. What I need? I am suffering due to my this misconception of life. The whole Vedic literature advises me that "You are not this material body." Ahaṁ brahmāsmi: "I am Brahman." Brahman means I am spirit. I am the supreme . . . not supreme spirit, but I am spirit, Brahman. The Vedic literature does not say that I am Parambrahman. Parambrahman is Bhagavān. Qualitatively, I am one with Parambrahman, and Brahman, there is qualitatively oneness, because Brahman. Gold, big gold or small gold, that doesn't matter. Gold, both of them are gold.