88 Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers
BARBARA: You have?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Daily. Every moment.

BARBARA: But not in the material body?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: He has no material body.

BARBARA: Well, in the temple here they have pictures of
Krsna... .

SRILA PRABHUPADA: 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 Krsna with our present eyes, Krsna therefore ap-
pears before us as a painting, as made of stone, as made of
wood. And Krsna is not different from these paintings and
wood because everything is Krsna.

BARBARA: After we die, what happens to our spirit?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: You get another body.

BARBARA: Immediately?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: 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?
SRILA PRABHUPADA: 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
