So therefore Narottama dasa Thakura, in very simple Bengali song, he says, hari hari biphale janama gonainu. This is our life. We have got this human form of life, but we are simply spoiling it. This is the whole situation. In our this movement we are traveling all over the world, and according to our views, how they are spoiling their very valuable human life in false identification that "I am this body," everyone, in big, big names, "I am American," "I am Indian," "I am German," "I am...," and they are spoiling their life under this bodily concept of life. According to sastra, anyone who is identifying himself, this body... That is the first instruction of the Bhagavad-gita. Krsna brought Arjuna to fight with the Kurus, and he identified himself as this body, and therefore he thought, "Killing of my cousin-brothers, it will not be good because I have got bodily relation." So to dissipate this conception of life -- that is the beginning of Bhagavad-gita -- Krsna chastised him, Arjuna, asocyan anvasocas tvam prajna-vadams ca bhasase [Bg. 2.11]. We are talking very, very big, big talks and plans, but actually we are nothing better than cats and dogs. This is our position because we are identifying with this body. "My country, my community, my society, my family, my..." Aham mameti [SB 5.5.8]. Jivasya moho ayam aham mameti. They do not know. This is the ignorance, basic ignorance. "I" and "my." "I am this body, and anything in relationship with the body is mine." This is ignorance. But this ignorance is going on all over the world. That's a fact, this ignorance.By H.D.G.Srila Prabhupada
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