09 Jan 2025 evening – The Material Body and the Soul (English) | Itajai, Brazil | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
- God created human beings in His image and likeness.
- Human beings and animals eat, sleep, mate, and defend themselves.
- Spiritual science explains the difference between animals and human beings.
- Human beings have the ability to discriminate between right and wrong.
- We are not the body, we are the soul, integral parts of the Lord.
- The Bible speaks of vatsalya-bhava, that we are children of the Lord.
- God is one but has different names.
- Try to understand the meaning of God and the soul.
- Birth, old age, and death are laws of Nature.
- Seek to know who you are: jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’… (CC Madhya-lila 20.108-109).
- The relationships of the material world are dissolved at death, but the soul is eternal and transcendental.
- Every existing substance has its own nature.
- The nature of the soul is to serve God.
- Story of the scholar who hired an illiterate boatman boy to take him on a boat trip.
- Moral of the story: there is no point in knowing many subjects and knowing nothing about what is essential, the soul.
