Śrīla Prabhupāda . Whenever it may be, why do you take this step of covering your body?
Dr. Singh.  To avoid discomfort..
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  Yes. Otherwise you would be uncomfortable. Not to bother to dress is the Māyāvāda theory: "Everything will come automatically, so why bother? Everything is one." That is a nonsensical theory. The Māyāvāda philosophy is that God is one and that every thing and every living being is equal to God.
We have no quarrel with the chemists if they begin from life, but unfortunately they say that everything begins from darkness-dead matter. That is what we object to. We say, "Begin from life," and they say, "No, begin from matter-darkness." The reason they are in darkness is simple: if one goes from darkness to light, he thinks that darkness is the beginning. Suppose you have been in darkness all your life, and now you suddenly come into the light. You will think, "Oh, light has come from darkness." Actually, darkness occurs when light becomes dim. Darkness does not produce light.
Dr. Singh.  Then darkness is dependent on light?
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  Yes. Or in other words, in the light there is no darkness. When the light is dim-then we experience darkness. Similarly, when our spiritual consciousness, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, is dim, our consciousness is material. In the morning we awaken, and at the end of the day we become tired and go to sleep. When life is somehow or other interrupted, we sleep. We sleep at night, and when we get up in the morning we understand that our wakefulness, or "life," has not come into existence from the sleepy condition. I was alive even while I slept, and on awakening I am still alive. This should be clearly understood. A baby comes from the womb of his mother. He thinks that his life has begun from the day he comes out of the womb. But that is not a fact. Actually, he is eternal. He constructed his material body within the womb of his mother while he was unconscious, and as soon as his bodily features were sufficiently developed, he came out of the womb and again to consciousness.
Dr. Singh.  And he again falls asleep at death...
Śrīla Prabhupāda . Yes. That is described in  Bhagavad-gītā  (8.19):
bhūta-grāmaḥ sa evāyaṁ bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate rātry-āgame 'vaśaḥ pārtha prabhavaty ahar-āgame
"Again and again the day comes, and this host of beings is active, and again night falls, O Pārtha, and they are helplessly dissolved."
We Are Not These Bodiess
Śrīla Prabhupāda.  Do you see this flower? It has come back to consciousness, and soon it will dry up and die. This is material life. But spiritual life means to flower only-no dissolution. That is the difference between matter and spirit. I have achieved this body according to my consciousness in my last life. And I will receive my next body according to my consciousness in this life. This is also confirmed in the  Bhagavad-gītā  (8.6):
yaṁ yaṁ vāpi smaran bhāvaṁ tyajaty ante kalevaram