Our material bondage is due to an illusion. What is that
illusion? That "I am this body." Dehatma-buddhi. "I am this
body, and anything which is required for this body or which I possess for the
comfort of this body, that is mine." Both of them are illusion, because I
am not this body; I am soul, aham brahmasmi. But the illusion is everyone is
thinking, "I am this body." "I am Indian," "I am
American," "I am white," "I am black," "I am
brahmana," "I am sudra," "I am this," "I am that."
So this is illusion. Therefore the Vedic system is, to save one from this
illusion
By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
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