751209SB.VRN                   Lectures
Generally the old man does not know what is going to
happen. He is in the hands of the nature. Ask anybody, any big, big
man, old man, “What you are going to do?” I met some very important
old man in London, one… He was Lord…
Hamsaduta: Brockway. Lord Brockway?
Prabhupada: Brockway, I think. I asked him, “What you will do? What is
the end of your life?” “No, I shall die peacefully.” That’s all. He
does not know that what is going to happen. Because the Christians,
they do not believe in the next life; they think this life is
finished, everything is finished. But that is not the fact. Because
they cannot find out the soul. But that requires expert knowledge.

Just like gold mine, apparently it appears that it is a stone. But one
who is expert, soil expert, he can understand, “Here is gold.” Just
like when I was in South Africa, even in the city Johannesburg there
are so many gold mines within the city, gold mines. So ordinary man,
how it will… How he’ll know that there is gold in the soil? He must
be expert. To find out the soul within this body, it is not the
business of rascals and fools. He must be very expert, exactly like
the soil expert. And then, by analysis… This is called neti neti, na

iti. It is very easy. 

If you think, study your body, take this finger,
so you’ll say, “My finger.” Nobody will say, “I finger.” Just like we
sometimes examine little child, “What is this?” “Finger.” “So a
finger, which finger?” “My finger.” “Head?” “My head.” “Leg?” “My
leg.” Everything, “my, my.” And where is “I”? This is intelligence.
Everything, he is studying, “my,” and who is “I”? This very question
will establish the fact, dehino ‘smin yatha dehe, that “I” is within
this body. Therefore I am speaking, “my.”
   So if one is expert in understanding, in analyzing this body, neti
neti–“This is blood. This is skin. This is this. This is this. This
is urine. This is stool”–then whole body we analyze. Then where is
that “I”? We cannot see. But why you cannot see? As soon as the “I” is
off, [gone] then whose stool, whose skin, whose bone? So in this way, if we
analyze, then we can understand that asmin dehe, within this body, the
“I” is there. And what is this “I”? Again, aham brahmasmi. This is
further advancement. But these rascals–“Aham brahmasmi means ‘I am
God.’ ” No. Take, consult Bhagavad-gita what is this aham. Aham means
the part and parcel of the Supreme Brahman, Parabrahman. Krsna is
Parabrahman. Param brahma param dhama pavitram paramam bhavan. So
Krsna says, “These Brahmans, these living entities, they are My part

and parcel.” That is aham understanding, “I.” What I am? I am part and
parcel of Krsna.