Next life, you can take birth in Russia, or you can take birth in India—there is no certainty. But according to Bhagavad-gita, you can understand at the time of death, if you are going on thinking, "Oh, Pakistan is my enemy," then you get a birth in Pakistan.

Neither Pakistani Nor Indian

Mistakenly identifying with this body and nationality

You don't be misled by the proposition of the so-called blind leaders that you are this body. The leaders are misguiding us by identification with this body. There is fight always. "I am American." "I am Indian." "I am Russian." "I am Pakistani." "I am Hindustani." And there is fight. Advancement of civilization means advancement of fighting. That's all. When there was no Pakistan, there was some sporadic Hindu-Muslim fight. Now there is nation Pakistan, and nation Hindustan, and there is organized fight every year. This is advancement? So don't follow this foolish advancement.

Take to Krishna consciousness and be happy. This is not an ordinary movement. People are suffering actually for want of spiritual life, spiritual understanding. So the basic principle of spiritual understanding is to know one's self. Aham brahmasmi. Aham brahmasmi ["I am not matter, but spirit"]. That, to come to that point, Krishna is explaining that this body is like the dress, and the person who is dressed, that is within the dress. Dehino 'smin yatha dehe [Bhagavad-gita 2.13: "As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change."]. Here also, it is said, tatha sharirani vihaya jirnany anyani samyati navani dehi [Bg 2.22: "As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones."]. Very simple thing. There is no difficulty.

But the so-called scientists, philosophers, educationists, they will not believe that there is soul. They'll not believe. They'll simply argue. They cannot establish the real fact how this body is moving. There are so many theories. But they will not accept that actually, because the soul is within this body, everything is happening. And without the soul, immediately this body, so nice body of such and such great personality, becomes a lump of matter. Not that the body is working... They are finding out the brain substance, how it is working. But the brain substance is already there in the dead body. Why don't you work with that? No. The fact is the brain substance is a machine, but the man, or the person, is within the body. He's working with the brain substance. Just like you have got a nice machine. But it must be worked by somebody. At the present moment, the computer is a very subtle machine. But this computer cannot work without an experienced mechanic who pushes the button and it works. These people, they cannot understand that without spiritual touch, matter cannot work. So brain may be a, a combination of nice matter, but it cannot work without the spirit soul. We should clearly understand this.

And if we accept this body as the everything... Just like the other day, I told you, I met one big professor, Russian professor, in Moscow. He said, "Swamiji, after this body is finished, everything's finished." This is the atheistic theory. This is not new. In India there are many atheists, followers of Charvaka. According to Charvaka Muni, his theory is: bhasmi bhutasya dehasya punah kutah punar agamano bhavet rinam kritva ghritam pibet yavad jivet sukham jivet. Rinam kritva pibet. "Just live joyfully, merrily..." "No, I have no money." "All right. Take, beg, borrow and steal. Some way or other, get money." That is going on. "Get money some way or other and live." That is Charvaka theory. Hedonism. "Get money..." So this is going, this civilization is going on. "Somehow or other, get money." Because without money, you cannot get woman, you cannot get nice palatable food, nice dress, nice apartment, nice car. "So bring money, somehow or other." Everyone is coming forward as very philanthropist leader. The aim is how to get money. That's all. That is their philanthropism. They, they speak so many nonsense things, but the real idea is how to get money.

So this is going on. At the present moment, they are after the sense gratification. They do not know that there is another life beyond sense gratification. That life is being taught in the Bhagavad-gita, that "You are trying to advance your civilization for keeping this body fit, but you are not this body. Why you are wasting your time in that way?" Yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke [SB 10.84.13]. Anyone who is thinking that "I am this body," sva-dhih kalatradishu. And sva-dhih means "My men, my own kinsmen." Who? "My children, my family, my society, my country," kalatradishu. Sva-dhih kalatradishu bhauma ijya-dhih: "And the land where these things have grown up, my body and my other relatives in relationship with this body, that is worshipable." Nationalism: "My country. I shall die for this land. I shall sacrifice everything." And those who are little advanced, pious, they go to places of pilgrimages, take a bath in the Ganges, and come out. They think that water is tirtha. No. Tirtha is saintly persons. Tirtha-padam. You have to meet saintly persons to take lesson from them. Yat-tirtha-buddhih salile na karhichij janeshu abhijñeshu. You have to meet self-realized persons, those persons who do not care for these things. So all those persons who are in the bodily concept of life, they have been described in the Srimad-Bhagavatam as go-kharah, "cows and asses."

So the Bhagavad-gita is the only book in the world which teaches to educate these cows and asses to human life. This mass of cows and asses are to be trained with these teachings of Bhagavad-gita. It is the beginning, that vasamsi jirnani yatha vihaya navani grihnati naro 'parani [Bg. 2.22: "As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones."]. This body can be changed. Suppose now you are very much a great enemy of Pakistan. Or Pakistan is thinking "Oh, India, Hindustan, is our great enemy." What is this Hindustan and Pakistan or Russia? This is this body. Next life, you can take birth in Russia, or you can take birth in India—there is no certainty. But according to Bhagavad-gita, you can understand at the time of death, if you are going on thinking, "Oh, Pakistan is my enemy," then you get a birth in Pakistan. [laughter] Yes. Yam yam vapi smaran bhavam tyajaty ante kalevaram [Bg. 8.6]: because I shall get my next body according to my mental condition at the time of death. So just like our women are taught to become very chaste. Why? That is a process to give her a chance to become a male next life. A woman, if she is educated to become chaste, attached to the husband, then naturally at the time of death, she'll think of the man, and she gets immediately promotion. That is promotion. Similarly, if a man is very much attached to his wife, he'll think of her at the time of his death, and he becomes woman. This is the science.

Where is the cultivation of this science? Simply all fools. And they are making research work. What is the research work? Can you go beyond the laws of the material nature? It is not possible.

prakriteh kriyamanani
gunaih karmani sarvashah
ahankara-vimudhatma
kartaham iti manyate

"The spirit soul bewildered by the influence of false ego thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by the three modes of material nature." [Bg. 3.27]

These rascals, they are under the full control of this material nature, and they are thinking, "We are independent." This is foolishness.

So if you want to stop this foolish kind of civilization, animal civilization of cows and asses, you have to teach Bhagavad-gita as it is. That is essential. That is the duty of every Indian. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu orders that. Bharata-bhumite manushya-janma haila yara [Chaitanya-charitamrita Adi-lila 9.41: "One who has taken his birth as a human being in the land of India {Bharata-varsha} should make his life successful and work for the benefit of all other people."]. Anyone who has taken birth in India, he must be very pious, must have been very pious in his last life. Therefore he has got the chance. So janma sarthaka kari': "Make your life successful by taking advantage of so many Vedic literatures stocked by the great saintly persons, spoken by God Himself." You are not taking advantage of these facilities, natural facilities. You are misled by so-called material civilization, and you are doomed. Andha yathandhair upaniyamanah [SB 7.5.31]. If you are led by blind leaders, you are all doomed. That is going on. That is my appeal to the Indians. Don't be doomed. Take Krishna, accept Krishna as the leader. Then you'll be happy.

Of course, for Krishna, there is no such thing as India and America. Just like the sun. The sun is neither Indian sun nor American sun. Sun is sun. But if you say, if you think that because now in India, the sun is visible, therefore "Indian sun," that is your concoction. That is your mental concoction. Sun is neither Indian nor American. Similarly, God, Krishna, He's neither for Indian nor for anywhere else. He is for everyone.

sarva-yonishu kaunteya
murtayah sambhavanti yah
tasam brahma mahad yonir
aham bija-pradah pita

"It should be understood that all species of life, O son of Kunti, are made possible by birth in this material nature, and that I am the seed-giving father." [Bg. 14.4]

He's the father of everyone, not only human beings, but in the animals, the trees, the aquatics, everyone, all living entities. This is universal. This Krishna consciousness movement is therefore universal, real universal.