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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...

Srila Prabhupada: 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 dif-
ficulty 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.

Srila Prabhupada [emphatically]: No.

Prof. Kotovsky: When the body dies, the owner also dies.

Srila Prabhupada: 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 corre-
spondence 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 Krsna’s statement on this subject, and He is au-
thoritative. Krsna is accepted as the authority by all the dcaryas. The
Bhagavad-gita is accepted by scholarly and philosophical circles all over
the world. Krsna says:

dehino ’smin yatha dehe
kaumaram yauvanam jara

tatha dehantara-praptir
dhiras 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 Krsna, the greatest
authority according to our tradition of knowledge. We accept such a
