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Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers
BARBARA:  You have?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Daily. Every moment.
BARBARA:  But not in the material body?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  He has no material body.
BARBARA:  Well, in the temple here they have pictures of Kṛṣṇa. . . .
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  That is not a material body. You are seeing materially because you have material eyes. Because you have material eyes, you cannot see the spiritual form. Therefore He kindly appears to be in a material body so that you can see. However, because He has kindly made Himself just fit for your seeing, that does not mean He has a material body. Suppose the President of the United States kindly comes to your house. That does not mean that his position and your position are the same. It is his kindness. Out of love, he may come to your house, but that does not mean he is on the same level as you. Similarly, because we cannot see Kṛṣṇa with our present eyes, Kṛṣṇa therefore appears before us as a painting, as made of stone, as made of wood. And Kṛṣṇa is not different from these paintings and wood because everything is Kṛṣṇa.
BARBARA:  After we die, what happens to our spirit?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  You get another body.
BARBARA:  Immediately?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Yes. Just as when you change your apartment: you fix up your new apartment first; then you leave this one and go there.
BARBARA:  So do we know what type of body we will get?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Yes, provided you are qualified. Otherwise nature will arrange for it. Those who know—they know what is there. But for those who do not know, nature will arrange things. If you do not know, this means