True knowledge is understanding oneself as eternal spirit; bhakti to Krishna naturally dissolves material attachment.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Rādhāṣṭamī Bhagavad-gītā 4.10 — September 23, 1974, Calcutta 740923BG-CALCUTTA [33:19 Minutes] Bg-04.10_740923BG-CALCUTTA Radhastami_740923BG-CALCUTTA Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] vīta-rāga-bhaya-krodhā man-mayā mām upāśritāḥ bahavo jñāna-tapasā pūtā mad-bhāvam āgatāḥ [Bg. 4.10] [break] [01:40] "Being freed from attachment, fear and anger, being fully absorbed in Me and taking refuge in Me, many, many persons in the past became purified by knowledge of Me, and thus they attained transcendental love for Me." Prabhupāda: vīta-rāga-bhaya-krodhā man-mayā mām upāśritāḥ bahavo jñāna-tapasā pūtā mad-bhāvam āgatāḥ [Bg. 4.10] So I think I can speak in English. Is that all right? Guests: Yes, yes. Prabhupāda: Nowadays, ladies, they can understand. This is the process.
Mad-bhāvam āgatāḥ. Our this human form of life is meant for going back to Kṛṣṇa, back to home, back to Godhead. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is giving information to the people in general how to make life successful. What is that successful life?
To go back to home, back to Godhead. This is not our home. This material world, this is foreign country. We are...
Just like I am traveling all over the world. My home is in India, but I am going to so many countries—Europe, America, Canada, Australia, Africa—but my home is in India. This is a crude example. Similarly, we are all part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa.
Mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūtaḥ [Bg. 15.7], Kṛṣṇa says. "All these living entities, they are My part and parcel." So Kṛṣṇa is sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ [Bs. 5.1]. Kṛṣṇa, His body is not material body. Those who are thinking Kṛṣṇa's body as material, they are called Māyāvādī.
But actually, Kṛṣṇa's body is not material. The evidence is that Kṛṣṇa knows past, present and future. In the material body that is not possible. Just like I had my previous body in my previous birth, but I don't remember.
If somebody asks me, "What you were in your previous life?" it is very difficult, because death means forgetfulness. We are not dying. So far we are, living entities, are concerned, we are not dying. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg. 2.20]. We do not die.