Life is eternal and gathers matter like a coat; knowing molecules without producing life proves only foolishness.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — March 2, 1975, Atlanta 750302MW-ATLANTA [11:03 Minutes] Walk_750302MW-ATLANTA Prabhupāda: Matter is also there, but matter means it is sometimes manifest, sometimes not. But life is always existing. Svarūpa Dāmodara: Unless the matter is touched by life, it cannot, er, it cannot...
Prabhupāda: Manifest. Just like this coat. It has not automatically come on my body. I have gathered it.
Similarly, life is there, and it is gathering the matter to dress himself in a particular way. This is the varieties of life. Svarūpa Dāmodara: We give that example that the difference between life and matter... We say that the difference is that the material living bodies...
We live in a material body, but the material bodies, when a living entity stays inside a body, is fully automated, fully equipped.
Prabhupāda: Life is enjoying, or trying to enjoy, the matter. Matter is prakṛti, and the living entity is puruṣa. The chief puruṣa is Kṛṣṇa, and we are trying to imitate Kṛṣṇa to enjoy. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā.
Living entity is superior prakṛti. Apareyam itas tu viddhi me prakṛtiṁ paraḥ [Bg 7.5]. It is a prakṛti, but we are trying to become puruṣa. This is struggle for existence.
Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa. [break] ...trying to live within the water. They are not trying? Svarūpa Dāmodara: Oh, yes.