Awaken the dormant Krishna consciousness sleeping within all souls through the eternal message of Bhagavad-gita.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Lecture — July 11, 1971, Los Angeles 710711LE-LOS ANGELES [15:54 Minutes] Lecture_710711LE-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: ...and the spiritual platform. The past, present and future calculation is according to this body. That there are different calculation it is scientifically proved—relativity, law of relativity. This world's past, present and future is different from the past, present, future of an ordinary man.
The ant's past, present and future is different from human being. So this past, present and future is in relationship with this body. Actually, as we are eternal spirit soul, we have no past, present or future. Just like this child, he is playing. After a few years this age will be a past tense.
Every one of us, we had also similar body, and that is now past tense. But I am this proprietor of the body. I remember that in such-and-such year I was a child like this, in such-and-such year I was a boy like this, in such-and-such year I was a young man like this. Therefore, "I" is eternal.
I am eternal. This past and present and future is due to the change of body. Is it not a fact? I am the same, feeling; I am feeling same. The old man, an old man, he also remembers his enjoyments during his youthful time, and sometimes he wants to go back to those youthful days.
An old man, when he meets his old friends, he talks about his youthful days. That means as spirit soul I am always youthful, but due to this condition of this body, I am feeling sometimes childish, sometime old man, sometime this or that. Bhagavad-gītā explains this idea very nicely: na jāyate na mriyate vā kadācin [Bg. 2.20]. The spirit soul has no birth nor death. This body..., just like we are no longer in our past childhood body, similarly, when this body will be also finished, it does not mean that I will not exist.
I will continue to exist. As I am existing, as I can remember my childhood days, my youthful days, therefore I am existing. In spite of my..., that childhood body being finished, my youthful body being finished, I am existing. Similarly, after finishing this body also, I will exist.
Is there any difficulty to understand? There is no difficulty. I am eternal. The only difference is that, because we are infinitesimal living spark, therefore we forget. Just like I can remember roughly about my childhood days, but I cannot remember the day-to-day activities in my childhood.