Interview

Soul as Driver of the Body, KC Movement Educates Beyond Material Life

📅 July 16, 1976 📍 New York ⏱ 62 min
The soul, not the body, is the true driver requiring nourishment and understanding.
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Prabhupāda: Laboring. George Orwell: You say not separating but liberating?

Prabhupāda: Not liberating. Hari-śauri: What was the point? George Orwell: I didn't understand your repl... Hari-śauri: Could you repeat the question again?

George Orwell: Many people say that members of the International Krishna Consciousness Society are being cut off from work in the world, and therefore their contributions to the world are being lost to the world, and I wondered how you felt about that.

Prabhupāda: Yes. But they have misunderstood. George Orwell: That is true?

Prabhupāda: Misunderstood. George Orwell: Misunderstood.

Prabhupāda: The difficulty is they do not understand on which platform we are working. George Orwell: How would you describe that platform?

Prabhupāda: Just like you or me or anyone, this living condition is one platform, and when I or you, we are dead, that is another platform. So generally people are working on the bodily concept of platform. George Orwell: What kind of?

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