Only Krishna Consciousness liberates one from maya's illusion of identifying with constantly changing material bodies.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.9.2 — April 22, 1972, Tokyo 720422SB-TOKYO [47:25 Minutes] SB-02.09.02_720422SB-TOKYO Pradyumna: Prabhupāda: ...māyayā bahu-rūpayā bahu-rūpa ivābhāti māyayā bahu-rūpayā ramamāṇo guṇeṣv asyā mamāham iti manyate [SB 2.9.2] Bahu-rūpa means varieties of forms, 8,400,000's of forms. Ivābhāti: "It appears like that." Therefore, when one is advanced in spiritual consciousness, he does not see the varieties of form, because these varieties of form are not real. Anyone can understand that. Any form...
Today we have got a form. Take a photograph of it, and few hours after, the form has changed. So that is not permanent form. It is changing.
Just like you see in the cloud. From airplane you can experience. The cloud... You are running. You are seeing one form.
After few minutes, that form is changing to different form. Therefore it is called ivābhāti. You immediately see a cloud just like big elephant, but after a few minutes you see the cloud, the same cloud, is changed into just like a big hill, another, a big tree. So this is going on.
Today I am Indian, you are American, but next birth or after few years, although American, the body is changing. Body is changing. Therefore it is written there, ivābhāti: "as if it has got a body." "As if." Ivābhāti: "It appears." But māyā is so strong. Bahu-rūpa ivābhāti...
What is the next word? Māyayā? Bali-mardana: Māyayā bahu-rūpayā [SB 2.9.2]. Prabhupāda: Bahu-rūpayā. These bahu-rūpa, these varieties of rūpa, form, is given by māyā. So this is intelligence.
Just like mother, or like a small child, dressing morning in some way, in the evening another way, changing dresses. Māyā is our mother, and she is giving us a different type of dresses, māyayā bahu-rūpayā, and therefore we are changing into bahu-rūpa. But because we are attached to the dress, so according to the form, we are forming our consciousness. Now I have got a different body, different form, so I have got a different consciousness. You have got a different body; you have got a different consciousness.