perfection; they do not even believe in the existence of the living entity apart from the gross body.
Dr. Singh.  They do not speak of the living entity; they speak only of bodies.
Student.  Their conception is something akin to Buddhism. The Buddhists say that the body is like a house. Just as a house is put together with wood, the body is put together with chemicals. And when the body dies, it is just like a house that falls apart. Just as the house becomes simply pieces of wood and then there is no more house, so the body becomes simply chemicals, and there is no more body and no more life.
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  That state is called  nirvāṇa . And then, with the ingredients, you can build another house or another body. That is Buddhism. The Buddhists do not have any information regarding the soul.
Destiny and Karmaa
Student.  Some scientists argue that there are several souls within each body. They use the earthworm as an example. If you cut it in half, both parts will live. They say this proves that two souls occupied the original worm's body.
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  No. It is simply that a new soul has come to occupy the other half of the worm's body.
Dr. Singh.  Must the spirit soul necessarily have a body-either spiritual or material?
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  The soul already has a spiritual body, which the material body covers. My material body grows upon me-my spiritual body-but my material body is unnatural. The real body is spiritual. I am accepting various bodies that are unnatural to my constitution. My real, constitutional position is to be the servant of Kṛṣṇa. As long as I do not come to that position, I remain a servant of matter and get many material bodies according to the laws of material energy. i get one body and then give it up. I desire something else and again get another body. This process is going on under the strict laws of material nature. People think they completely control their destinies, but they are always under nature's law of  karma :
prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā kartāham iti manyate
"The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself to be the doer of activities that are In actuality carried out by nature." (Bg. 3.27) The source of this bewilderment is that the living entity thinks, "I am this body."
īšvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati bhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni yantrārūḍhāni māyayā [Bg. 18.61]
In this verse the word  yantra , or "machine," means that in any species of life, we are traveling in bodies that are like machines provided by material nature. Sometimes we are moving to