The Real Goal of Life
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ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  That's all right. But how the energy is working in the future—that science does not know. How is the energy diverted? How, by different manipulations, is the energy working differently? For instance, electrical energy. By different handling it is operating the heater, and it is operating the refrigerator. They are just the opposite, but the electrical energy is the same. Similarly, this energy—living energy—how is it being directed? Which way is it going? How is it fructifying in the next life? That they do not know. But in  Bhagavad-gītā  it is very simply stated.
vāsāṁsi jīṃāni yathā vihāya
You are covered by a dress, by a shirt. When this shirt is unusable, you change it. Similarly, this body is just like a shirt and coat. When it is no longer workable, we have to change it.
BOB:  What is the “we” that has to change? What is constant?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  That is the soul.
BOB:  From one life to the next?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  That is the soul—I. What “you” is speaking? You! What “I” is speaking? Identity:  ātmā , or soul.
BOB:  My soul is different from your soul?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Yes. You are an individual soul, I am an individual soul.
BOB:  You have removed yourself from karmic influences. If I was to remove myself from karmic influences, would our souls be the same or different?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  The soul is of the same quality in all. You are under a certain conception of life at the present moment, and these countrymen of yours [the Kṛṣṇa