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The Hare Krishna Mahamantra is Flooding the World

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Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: How Can the Body Be Like a Shirt?

In Video for the Day on 1 December 2016 you said that the problem is due to bodily misidentification and you gave the example of shirt. I am wondering how this example could be correct. We can wear our shirt and take it off at will. But we can't do that with our body. We can't take a body or get out of our present body at will.

Humbly request your divine grace to please clarify.

Yours sincerely,
Visvanatha das

Answer: Because When It is Old We Get a New One

You found fault with the analogy of a shirt, but this analogy has come from Krishna Himself. Analogies are not perfect in every detail, but they are similar enough to help us see a truth more clearly. You do in fact change your body just like a shirt. When a shirt becomes old and useless you get a new one. The same with your body. When it becomes old and useless you die and get a new one.

Just as a shirt can be removed at will, the body can also be removed at will by suicide. Suicide however is a sinful act of murder and should never be done. Our bodies belong to Krishna, and we thus have no right to kill them. They are meant to exclusively engaged in Hi service. One who commits suicide is forced by the laws of nature to become a ghost in his next life.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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