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That idea (the bodily concept of life) just in the mind?

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"That idea just in the mind" |"the bodily concept of life"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

Yes. That is animalism.
Morning Walk -- June 13, 1974, Paris:

Puṣṭa-kṛṣṇa: How is it possible, Śrīla Prabhupāda? We're so tiny, one ten-thousandth the tip of a hair, and yet we can become so puffed-up as to think that even I am God or I am the controller of the material nature like the scientists are thinking?

Prabhupāda: Because they are in the bodily concept of life, they are thinking, "I'm not teeny, small particle. I am this big, fatty body." He's thinking like that. Just like a dog is thinking, "I am bulldog." It is like that, the same concep...

Puṣṭa-kṛṣṇa: So that idea just in the mind?

Prabhupāda: Yes. That is animalism. (pause) (break)

Page Title:That idea (the bodily concept of life) just in the mind?
Compiler:MadhuGopaldas, Rishab
Created:28 of Jun, 2011
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No. of Quotes:1