Tamal Kṛṣṇa: Verse sixteen: "There is no possibility of one's becoming a yogī, O Arjuna, if one eats too much or eats too little, sleeps too much or does not sleep enough." (BG 6.16)
Prabhupāda: Yes. This is very nice. (laughs) Nothing is prohibited, because after all, you have to execute the yoga process with your this body. "To make the best use of a bad bargain." You see? This material body is the source of all miseries. Actually, the spirit soul has no misery. Just like normal condition of a living entity is healthy life. Disease takes place by certain contamination, infection. Disease is not our life.
Similarly, the present position of material existence is a diseased condition of the soul. And what is that disease? The disease is this body. Because this body is not meant for me, it is not my body. Just like your dress, you are not the dress. But we are differently dressed here—somebody red color, somebody white color, somebody yellow color. But that color, I am not this color. Similarly this body, I am white man, black man, Indian, American or this, Hindu, Muslim, Christian—this is not my position. This is all diseased condition. Diseased condition. And we are trying to get out of the disease. That is yoga system. To connect again with the Supreme, because I am part and parcel.
The same example: Somehow or other the finger is cut off, and it is falling on the ground; it has no value. My finger, when it is cut off and it is lying on the ground, it has no value. But as soon as the finger is joined with this body, it has got millions and trillions of dollars' value. Invaluable. Similarly, we are now disconnected with God, or Kṛṣṇa, by this material condition. Forget . . . not disconnected. Connection is there. God is supplying our all necessities. Just like a state prisoner is disconnected from the civil department; he has come to the criminal department. Actually not disconnected. The government is still taking care, but legally disconnected.
Similarly, we are not disconnected. We cannot be disconnected, because there is no existence of anything without Kṛṣṇa. So how can I be disconnected? Disconnection is that by forgetting Kṛṣṇa, instead of engaging myself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, I am engaged in so many nonsense consciousness. That is disconnection. Instead of thinking myself that, "I am eternal servant of God, or Kṛṣṇa," I am thinking, "I am servant of my society," " I am servant of my country," "I am servant of my husband," "I am servant of my wife," "I am servant of my dog," or so many. This is forgetfulness.
So how it has happened? Due to this body, whole thing. Whole mis-consciousness has come into existence due to this body."