The soul is eternal and the body changes—this simple truth is the foundation of all real knowledge and civilization.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śatadhanya: Actually, when we see it from that point of view, the scientists have given nothing beneficial. Prabhupāda: Ultimately the our troubles are janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi [Bg 13.9]. That they do not know, science. They cannot solve. Śatadhanya: When we say that, they say, "No one can solve them." Prabhupāda: Yes. Śatadhanya: They say, "That is pie in the sky." Prabhupāda: You say. We don't say.
Because you cannot do, you say. We are cultivating Kṛṣṇa consciousness for this purpose. We are not wasting time. And we are wasting time doing so?
We are fools? That is the first instruction, that soul is immortal and unchanging. This very instruction they cannot understand. That is first instruction.
Dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā [Bg 2.13]. This simple... A child changes body. That is beginning. There is no...
Same child. For a while it may be. Now he's grown up, young man. It is not change of body?
Why these rascals cannot understand? Where is that inteligence? Therefore I have said, "You have no brain." It is a fact. My son, he's now young man.
He took birth as a small child. Where is that body? Body has changed. Common thing.