This presentation provides the ABC for spiritual life.

1. Learn what they don't teach
you at any university
Compiled from the teachings of
His Divine Grace Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila
Prabhupada
LESSON - 1 - Spirit Soul
complied by Nitin Mahendru

2. Do you
remember
your body
when you
were a 2
year old
child?

3. and your body when you were
10 year old ... and 20 year old
... and 30 ...

4. your body has undergone
considerable changes ... huh...
and it will continue to change...

5. in fact your
body is
changing
every moment
... every
second...

6. But what is it
that is not
changing ...

7. its
YOU
YOU the
person
never
changes

8. Lets see how do you relate
to the things around you?

9. I am John.
This is my car
That is my book
This is my hand
This is my toe
This is my finger This is my body

10. You do not say...
I am this hand
I am this toe
I am this finger
I am this body

11. who is this person you call
"I"
This "I" has seen all the
bodily changes

12. but "I"
remain the
same
"I" am a
person, an
individual,
an entity ...
a living
entity

13. "I" have consciousness that
spreads across my body

14. suddenly on death ... the
body has no consciousness
... the "I" is gone within a
lightening flash

15. who provided that
consciousness to the
body ... what was so
powerful ... where did
that "I" go ...

16. that "I" is the
SOUL

17. Minute SOUL
..spreads Consciousness
across the
body

18. The body is just a machine
driven by the soul ...
like a man
drives a car.

19. "I" am not this body.
"I" am a spirit soul

20. ABC of spiritual life ...
As the embodied soul
continually passes, in
this body, from
boyhood to youth to old
age, the soul similarly
passes into another
body at death. The self-
realized soul is not
bewildered by such a
change.
- Bhagavad Gita As it
Is 2.13

21. Properties of a Soul
indestructible cannot be dried
cannot be cut imperishable
eternal
insoluble atomic cannot be burnt
cannot be moistened by water
immutable everlasting
unchangeable immovable
unborn undying
cannot be withered by wind

22. Soul has a propensity to ...
Enjoy
it is always
seeking
pleasure

23. The body is not
the enjoyer,
but the soul is
the enjoyer.

24. it is not
possible for
the body to
experience
enjoyment...
...without the
presence of this
spiritual spark.

25. If a man is
offered the
dead body of
a beautiful
woman, will
he accept it?
No, not a sane one

26. Not only was the soul enjoying
within the body, but it was
maintaining the body.
When the soul
leaves, the body
simply deteriorates.

27. Every one of
us is
searching
after
happiness,
but we do not know what real
happiness is.

28. Real happiness Real happiness is
is that joyous
state, where one
spiritual happiness
is situated in
boundless
transcendental
happiness and
enjoys himself
through
transcendental
senses.

29. As we begin to
relish spiritual
happiness, we
proportionately
abandon material
happiness.