Everything belongs to Krishna; the body is not yours but His, so serve only His interests with unwavering devotion.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.48 — October 28, 1974, Māyāpur 741028SB-MAYAPUR [32:46 Minutes] SB-01.08.48_741028SB-MAYAPUR Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] aho me paśyatājñānaṁ hṛdi rūḍhaṁ durātmanaḥ pārakyasyaiva dehasya bahvyo me 'kṣauhiṇīr hatāḥ [SB 1.8.48] [Prabhupāda interrupts chanting of verse to correct pronunciation: "There is no ya. It is rūḍhaṁ. You explain[?], it is also rūḍhaṁ. No 'ya.' "—responsive chanting continues] [break] [01:50] "King Yudhiṣṭhira said: O my lot! I am the most sinful man!
Just see my heart, which is full of ignorance! This body, which is ultimately meant for others, has killed many, many phalanxes of men." Prabhupāda: aho me paśyatājñānaṁ hṛdi rūḍhaṁ durātmanaḥ pārakyasyaiva dehasya bahvyo me akṣauhiṇīr hatāḥ [SB 1.8.48] So Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja says that this body is meant for others. It is others' body. Everyone should be interested for his own body.
Who is interested for other's body? I eat for maintenance of my body, not that your body. It is the very good argument given by Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja, that "First of all ascertain whether it is your body. If for the bodily sense gratification, satisfaction, you are committing so many sinful life, but first of all consider whether this body is yours." Now, first of all consideration is: this body is given by the father and mother.
So actually the body belongs to the father and mother. Or just like the slaves—they sell their body to the master. So somebody, if maintains your body, then it becomes..., the body belongs to him. Suppose you are working somewhere and he is giving you money for maintaining your body; then actually the body is maintained for the person who gives me payment.
You see so many people are going to the other side of the river, very..., running very quickly to go there, because the body is sold to that master who is paying for eating. Otherwise why he's taking the body there? So actually the body belongs to others. And spiritually, the body belongs to Kṛṣṇa.
But when we forget our relationship with Kṛṣṇa—the body belongs to somebody else; that's a fact—then we think that "The body belongs to my father and mother" or this and that... Sometimes we do not think that. So why, from material point of view, if the body does not belong to me, why shall I commit so many sinful activities for others? So Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja is repentant, that pārakyasyaiva dehasya bahvyo me akṣauhiṇīr hatāḥ: "Many hundreds and thousands of soldiers, horses, elephants, men we have killed." Akṣauhiṇī, there is a calculation, 64,000 elephants, 64,000 horses and 64,000..., like that. Exactly I cannot, but some of the items are 64,000.
Chariots. One... Nowadays it is called exactly? A group of soldiers?