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SRILA PRABHUPADA: 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 en-
ergy. 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-gita it is very simply stated.

vasamsi jirnani yatha vihaya
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?
SRILA PRABHUPADA: That is the soul.
BOB: From one life to the next?
SRILA PRABHUPADA: That is the soul—I. What “you” is
speaking? You! What “I” is speaking? Identity: dtmd, or
soul.
BOB: My soul is different from your soul?
SRILA PRABHUPADA: 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?
SRILA PRABHUPADA: 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 Krsna
