Pure devotees reject oneness with God; they eternally desire to serve Krishna's lotus feet as individual spiritual souls.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.33–34 — December 3, 1974, Bombay 741203SB-BOMBAY [48:14 Minutes] SB-03.25.33–34_741203SB-BOMBAY Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] jarayaty āśu yā kośaṁ nigīrṇam analo yathā [SB 3.25.33] Text 34. naikātmatāṁ me spṛhayanti kecin mat-pāda-sevābhiratā mad-īhāḥ ye 'nyonyato bhāgavatāḥ prasajya sabhājayante mama pauruṣāṇi [SB 3.25.34] Prabhupāda: kecin.
As Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā, dehino 'smin yathā dehe [Bg. 2.13]. Dehinaḥ, the proprietor or the occupier... Proprietor is not actually. The occupier.
I have several times explained that this body, gross and subtle, both the bodies... Just like shirt and coat covering of the body, similarly, there are two kinds of covering of the body: subtle body and gross body. The gross body is made of earth, water, fire, air, sky, and the subtle body is made of mind, intelligence and ego. There are eight kinds of material elements. Five are gross—we can see—and three are very subtle—we cannot see.
And the soul is still more subtle. indriyāṇi parāṇy āhur indriyebhyaḥ paraṁ manaḥ manasas tu parā buddhir buddhes tu yaḥ paratas saḥ [Bg. 3.42] We have got experience of this body. That is gross experience. Anyone can see. I see your body; you see my body.
But you don't see me actually; I don't see you actually. We see or perceive your presence when the soul is off from the body. Then we cry, "Oh, my friend has gone away. My friend has gone away." Why your friend has gone away?
He is lying here. Then we can perceive that "My real friend or my real father, the soul, who is different from this body..." And now, at the present moment, "He is my father, he is my friend who is this body"—that is animal vision. That is not human being vision. Yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke ... sa eva go-kharaḥ [SB 10.84.13].
Animals also see, "Here is a friend dog. Here is my mother dog." So we have no eyes to see. So we cannot see even the soul, minute soul, and how we can see God in these blunt eyes? And still you want to see God.