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when this body will be no more, then I will have to accept another body? It is a great science.
Prof. Kotovsky:  As you know, there are two quite opposite approaches to this problem. The approach is slightly different according to different religions, but at the same time, any religion recognizes and searches for the change-of-place experience, or transmigration of spirit. In Christian religion, in Judaism, in . . .
Śrila Prabhupāda:  I am not talking religions with you. I am talking science and philosophy. One religion may accept one way; that is not our concern. We are concerned with the point that if the owner of the body is permanent in spite of different changes of body, there should be no difficulty in understanding that when this body changes entirely, the owner of the body will have another body.
Prof. Kotovsky:  Another approach is that there is no separation. There are no two phenomena—the body and the owner of the body are the same.
Śrila Prabhupāda  [emphatically]: No.
Prof. Kotovsky:  When the body dies, the owner also dies.
Śrila Prabhupāda:  No, no. But why is there no department of knowledge in the university to study this fact scientifically? That is my proposition—they are lacking. It may be as you say or it may be as I say, but there must be a department of knowledge to study this. Recently a cardiologist in Toronto, a doctor, has accepted that there is a soul. I had some correspondence with him, and he strongly believes that there is a soul. So there is another point of view, but our process is to accept knowledge from authority. We have Kṛṣṇa's statement on this subject, and He is authoritative. Kṛṣṇa is accepted as the authority by all the  ācāryas . The  Bhagavad-gītā  is accepted by scholarly and philosophical circles all over the world. Kṛṣṇa says:
dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā tathā dehāntara-prāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati
“Just as the soul gives up the childhood body and comes to the boyhood body and then to youth, the soul also gives up this body and accepts another body.” [Bg. 2.13] This statement is given by Kṛṣṇa, the greatest authority according to our tradition of knowledge. We accept such a