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An increasing number of people believe in reincarnation. Reincarnation is when the living entity leaves this body and accepts a new one, over and over again. You do not have to continuously reincarnate in this material world again and again. This small powerful book gives the knowledge to help you break the cycle of reincarnation and enter into the spiritual world. From chapter One: O descendant of Bharata, he who dwells in the body is eternal and can never be slain. Therefore you need not grieve for any creature. (Bhagavad-gita 2.30) The very first step in self-realization is realizing ones identity as separate from the body. I am not this body but am spirit soul is an essential realization for anyone who wants to transcend death and enter into the spiritual world beyond. It is not simply a matter of saying I am not this body, but of actually realizing it. This is not as simple as it may seem at first. Although we are not these bodies but are pure consciousness, somehow or other we have become encased within the bodily dress. If we actually want the happiness and independence that transcend death, we have to establish ourselves and remain in our constitutional position as pure consciousness. Living in the bodily conception, our idea of happiness is like that of a man in delirium. Some philosophers claim that this delirious condition of bodily identification should be cured by abstaining from all action. Because these material activities have been a source of distress for us, they claim that we should actually stop these activities. Their culmination of perfection is in a kind of Buddhistic nirvana, in which no activities are performed. Buddha maintained that due to a combination of material elements, this body has come into existence, and that somehow or other if these material elements are separated or dismantled, the cause of suffering is removed. If the tax collectors give us too much difficulty because we happen to possess a large house, one simple solution is to destroy the house. However, Bhagavad-gita indicates that this material body is not all in all. Beyond this combination of material elements, there is spirit, and the symptom of that spirit is consciousness.
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Beyond Birth and Death 
His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupda
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupda
Founder-crya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
Readers interested in the subject matter
of this book are invited by
the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
to correspond with its Secretary.
of this book are invited by
the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
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International Society for Krishna Consciousness
3959 Landmark Street
Culver City, California 90230
1972 by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust ( B.B.T.)
All rights reserved
First Printing, 1972: 25,000 copies
Second Printing, 1973: 100,000 copies
Third Printing, 1974: 200,000 copies
Second Printing, 1973: 100,000 copies
Third Printing, 1974: 200,000 copies
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 72-84844
International Standard Book Number: 0-912776-41-2
International Standard Book Number: 0-912776-41-2
Printed in the United States of America
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CONTENTS
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupda left India and came to America in 1965 to spread the Hare Ka Movement to the Western world. He is the first successful propagator of the science of bhakti-yoga in the West and the founder and spiritual master of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, which has over seventy centers around the world. He has translated and commented upon many great Vedic literatures-Bhagavad-gt, Upaniads, rmad-Bhgavatam and others. This present booklet introduces the reader to the basic message of Bhagavad-gt-that through Ka consciousness one can transcend the relative material world of time and space and attain the perfectional platform of existence beyond birth and death.
Chapter 1. We Are Not These Bodies
We Are Not These Bodies
deh nityam avadhyo 'ya
dehe sarvasya bhrata
tasmt sarvi bhtni
na tva ocitum arhasi
dehe sarvasya bhrata
tasmt sarvi bhtni
na tva ocitum arhasi
"O descendant of Bharata, he who dwells in the body is eternal and can never be slain. Therefore you need not grieve for any creature." (Bhagavad-gt 2.30)
The very first step in self-realization is realizing one's identity as separate from the body. "I am not this body but am spirit soul" is an essential realization for anyone who wants to transcend death and enter into the spiritual world beyond. It is not simply a matter of saying "I am not this body," but of actually realizing it. This is not as simple as it may seem at first. Although we are not these bodies but are pure consciousness, somehow or other we have become encased with the bodily dress. If we actually want the happiness and independence that transcend death we have to establish ourselves and remain in our constitutional position as pure consciousness.
Living in the bodily conception, our idea of happiness is like that of a man in delirium. Some philosophers claim that this delirious condition of bodily identification should be cured by abstaining from all action. Because these material activities have been a source of distress for us, they claim that we should actually stop these activities. Their culmination of perfection is in a kind of Buddhistic nirva in which no activities are performed. Buddha maintained that due to a combination of material elements, this body has come into existence, and that somehow or other if these material elements are separated or dismantled, the cause of suffering is removed. If the tax collectors give us too much difficulty because we happen to possess a large house, one simple solution is to destroy the house. However, Bhagavad-gt indicates that this material body is not all in all. Beyond this combination of material elements, there is spirit, and the symptom of that spirit is consciousness.
Consciousness cannot be denied. A body without consciousness is a dead body. As soon as consciousness is removed from the body, the mouth will not speak, the eye will not see, nor the ears hear. A child can understand that. It is a fact that consciousness is absolutely necessary for the animation of the body. What is this consciousness? Just as heat or smoke are symptoms of fire, so consciousness is the symptom of the soul. The energy of the soul or self is produced in the shape of consciousness. Indeed, consciousness proves that the soul is present. This is not only the philosophy of Bhagavad-gt but the conclusion of all Vedic literature.
The impersonalist school of akarcrya, as well as the Vaiavas following in the disciplic succession from Lord r Ka, acknowledge the factual existence of the soul, but the Buddhist philosophers do not. The Buddhists contend that at a certain stage the combination of matter produces consciousness, but this argument is refuted by the fact that although we may have all the constituents of matter at our disposal, we cannot produce consciousness from them. All the material elements may be present in a dead man, but we cannot revive that man to consciousness. This body is not like a machine. When a part of a machine breaks down, it can be replaced, and the machine will work again, but when the body breaks down and consciousness leaves the body, there is no possibility of our replacing the broken part and rejuvenating the consciousness. The soul is different from the body, and as long as the soul is there, the body is animate. But there is no possibility of making the body animate in the absence of the soul.
Because we cannot perceive the soul by our gross senses, we deny it. Actually there are so many things that are there which we cannot see. We cannot see air, radio waves or sound, nor can we perceive minute bacteria with our blunt senses, but this does not mean they are not there. By the aid of the microscope and other instruments, many things can be perceived which had previously been denied by the imperfect senses. Just because the soul, which is atomic in size, has not been perceived yet by senses or instruments, we should not conclude that it is not there. It can, however, be perceived by its symptoms and effects.
In Bhagavad-gt r Ka points out that all of our miseries are due to false identification with the body.
mtr-spars tu kaunteya
stoa-sukha-dukha d
gampyino 'nitys
ts titikasva bhrata
stoa-sukha-dukha d
gampyino 'nitys
ts titikasva bhrata
"O son of Kunt, the nonpermanent appearance of heat and cold, happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed." (Bg. 2.14)
In the summertime we may feel pleasure from contact with water, but in the winter we may shun that very water because it is too cold. In either case, the water is the same, but we perceive it as pleasant or painful due to its contact with the body. All feelings of distress and happiness are due to the body. Under certain conditions the body and mind feel happiness and distress. Factually we are hankering after happiness, for the soul's constitutional position is that of happiness. The soul is part and parcel of the Supreme Being, who is
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