750301r3.atl                 Conversations                 Madhava: Can we say that the living entity is there, and that he  is the one that makes the molecules and the atoms come together to form  a body just like the scientists give explanation? No? We can’t?

Prabhupada: No. Because the living entity is there for the  formation of his body, so many things are going on, action and reaction of  the matter. That’s all. That is depending on his desires. It  is so subtle thing. He is desiring, and action, reaction is going  on.

And as soon as the living entity is not  there, these action and reaction will stop. So they are  trying to find out the missing thing. That missing thing is the living  entity. That they do not know, foolishly. Just like a motorcar is running  very nicely, and as soon as the driver goes away it stops. The machine is  there, the everything is there, but this rascal mechanic, he comes,  “Something is missing.” And why something missing? But he does not know the  missing part is the driver. He is finding out in the motorcar what is  missing. The motorcar, everything is there. The hand is there, leg is there,  heart is there, the intestines are there, everything is there. So they cannot  explain. They say, “Now the blood has become white.” Then make it red. Where  is the difficulty? So they do not know what is missing; neither  he’ll take, I mean to say, learned instruction. That is their defect. Real

thing is the driver is missing, but that they will not accept. They are  so foolish, they are thinking that motorcar is running automatically.

.. Yes. That is the first instruction of Krsna. Dehino ‘smin yatha  dehe kaumara… Dehinah. There is a living entity, driver, within this  body. That is the first instruction. Unless one understands this simple  thing, he is an ass. There is no knowledge. Because everything is based  on something fictitious. This is the first thing one has to learn, the  scientists, that there is the driver which is missing. Or the driver is  moving this body. And if the driver is educated, then he can move  this body to Krsna, back to home, back to Godhead. Then he becomes  perfect. So we are educating the driver. We are not painting the tin  car. This is Krsna consciousness movement.

Some Conclusions:

Srila Prabhupada explains that this body we now possess is going on every  second

due to our (past/present) material desire(s) and we will have another  one in the next life as well

due to our continued material desire which produces action and reaction  which means for us-another

trip again to the maternity ward-unless we figure it out correctly. As  we humbly mentioned before, “Karma” is more than just 5 letters in the  alphabet.

Hare Krsna

Damaghosa das