# The Spiritual Body *On sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha - the eternal blissful form we regain in the spiritual world* --- ### Eternal Body of Knowledge and Bliss > Only difference is that God does not change His body; I change my body. That is also in this material world. When I shall go to the spiritual world, there is no more change of body. Eternal. As Kṛṣṇa has got His eternal body, sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ, form, eternal blissful of knowledge, similarly, when we go back to home, back to Godhead, then we get also similar body, sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ. — [[spoken/1973/730819bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 2.13, London, 1973]] --- ### The Original Body Already Exists > Mukti means I have got my original body already. It is covered by this material coating. So when there is no more material coating, that is called mukti. That can be achieved when you go to Kṛṣṇa, back to home, back to Godhead. At that time, you do not become formless. Form remains. As I am individual form, similarly, when I go to Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa has also His individual form, I have also my individual form. — [[spoken/1974/740607bg.gen|Bhagavad-gītā 8.1, Geneva, 1974]] --- ### Like a Snake Shedding Its Skin > Just like the snake. They sometimes give up the outer covering of the body. But he remains in the body. He remains in the body. But the extra covering which had..., he had grown, that is also gone once he gives up. Similarly, we... Mukti means this extra... Just like this dress, this is covering. I can give it up, but I remain in my original body. Similarly, mukti means I have got my original body already. — [[spoken/1974/740607bg.gen|Bhagavad-gītā 8.1, Geneva, 1974]] --- ### Getting Your Spiritual Body > So, so long we are materially contaminated, we require this material body for enjoying senses. And the spiritual world, we get our spiritual body developed. So there is no question of becoming ghost or... Individual, there is. The person is always existing. That is the purport of this verse. — [[spoken/1976/761212bg.hyd|Bhagavad-gītā 2.12, Hyderabad, 1976]] --- ### Spiritual Desire in the Spiritual Body > So conclusion is that when you get your spiritual body then the desire will be different. And that is prema. Desires are going on. Now the desires are designated. Designated. Because one has got a particular type of body, his desires are different from another because another person, he has got a particular type of body. But in the spiritual world, because there is no material body, only desire is how to satisfy Kṛṣṇa. — [[spoken/1976/761127sb.vrn|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.6.5, Vṛndāvana, 1976]] --- ### No Change of Body > We are changing our body from one body to another, but there is no mukti. There is no liberation. Mukti is... Simply by changing body, we are not mukta. Mukta means we change this body not to accept any more material body, but we remain in our own spiritual body. Just like if you are diseased, you are suffering from fever, so when there is no more fever, but you remain in your original healthy body, that is called mukti. — [[spoken/1974/740607bg.gen|Bhagavad-gītā 8.1, Geneva, 1974]] --- ### Kṛṣṇa's Body Never Deteriorates > Kṛṣṇa's body is avyaya. Our body is vyaya; it deteriorates, changes. Our body deteriorates, changes. Just like we are born, a small child, baby. It grows, it stays for some time. Then it makes some by-products. This is called ṣaḍ-vikāra, six kinds of changes of material body. But Kṛṣṇa hasn't got such changes. Kṛṣṇa body is avyaya. His mind is avyaya. That means, as we have got difference between our soul and the body, Kṛṣṇa hasn't got that. — [[spoken/1974/740326bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.6, Bombay, 1974]] --- ### No Difference Between Kṛṣṇa's Body and Soul > Those who cannot understand, they make difference between His ātmā, Kṛṣṇa's ātmā, and Kṛṣṇa's body. They think... The Māyāvādī philosophers, they say that "Kṛṣṇa, He is God... Or godly"—they have got the imagination—"but His body is made of matter." No. That is not. If His body had been made of matter, then how He could remember millions of years ago what He did? — [[spoken/1974/740326bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 4.6, Bombay, 1974]] --- ### Free From Fever, Not Formless > It is not that mukti means to become formless. No. The same example: You are suffering from fever. To become free from fever does not mean that you become formless. Why I shall become formless? My form is there, but my form is no more disturbed by the fever, feverish condition. That is called mukti. Roga-mukta, free from disease. — [[spoken/1974/740607bg.gen|Bhagavad-gītā 8.1, Geneva, 1974]] --- ### Ultimate Goal: Sac-cid-ānanda Body > Now, if you want to reach to the ultimate goal of life, where only blissful life, sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ, eternal body of knowledge and bliss, then you have to become sura. It is not that the asuras will remain asura. It doesn't matter. Even born in the asura family one can become sura. Just like Prahlāda Mahārāja. — [[spoken/1975/750127bg.tok|Bhagavad-gītā 16.7, Tokyo, 1975]] --- *10 quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on the spiritual body* [[wiki/quotes|Back to Quotes]]