The soul departs at death; all physical symptoms are effects, not causes of mortality.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation — October 4, 1975, Mauritius 751004R1-MAURITIUS [53:09 Minutes] Conv_751004R1-MAURITIUS [Prabhupāda is taking breakfast prasādam] Brahmānanda: ...it becomes a young man, but the same scar is on his body. So they will say it's the same body.
Prabhupāda: But the size of the body has changed. Brahmānanda: The size has changed. It has grown, increased. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: It looks different, completely.
It looks different. There is no similarity.
Prabhupāda: Yes. There is no similarity. Why the child... There was no mustaches.
Why you have mustaches? How you can say, "The same body"? You shall have to give your own argument. Child had no mustaches; you have got now mustaches.
How you can say the same body? The child had no sex desire; now you have got sex desire. Brahmānanda: They would say all these things are dormant within the child's body, and now they are coming out.
Prabhupāda: That we also say, but that body not... That "dormant" means dormant in the soul, not in the body. That is the knowledge. Dormant it is, but dormant in the soul, not in the body.