ID

" Got any ID ? " asked the officer and I said " Yes sir. I am jivera svarupa haya - krishnera nitya-dasa - I am pure spirit soul , eternal servant of Krishna . " The officer turned to his partner, cracked a smile and said , " Hey Frank , we ve got a joker here - cuff him. " Well there wasnt really such a conversation but in this Dark Age , the Iron Age of Kali, it could quite easily go that way although my answer to the officer was perfectly correct according to the most ancient books of widom , namely the Vedas. Quarrel , hypocrisy and ignorance of spiritual truth are the symptoms of this unfortunate age , so most people believe we are these bodies . Therefore they believe they are male or female, black or white , German or Spanish , housewife or engineer etc., and that these designations are in fact their true identity , their real ID. Thats like wearing a blue checkered shirt and therefore thinking that you are blue and checkered . Its just something you are wearing for a while , its not you. Similarly these gross material bodies ( as well as the subtle material bodies of mind and intelligence ) are simply like temporary garments "worn " by the soul , the eternal spiritual personality within .Yet so deep is this misidentification with the material body that people lay down their lives for it in wars between one race and another or one nation and another. As my Guruji Bhakti Vijaya Acharya once said , the illusion, which has been reinforced for millions of lifetimes , of thinking we are these material bodies , is so thick " ... that not even a jackhammer can cut it loose ! " Fortunately there is something that will cut it loose - Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare , Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare , the transcendental sound vibration imported from the topmost planet in the Spiritual Sky , Goloka Vrindavana , shaped like a giant lotus flower where Sri Sri Radha - Krishna are enjoying Their never-ending divine loving pastimes in the company of Their pure devotees .

So yes officer , I do have ID. I am a sub -atomic spiritual particle with more energy than millions of suns and unlike the temporary, miserable material body my perfect spiritual body is sac-cid ananda - eternal , indestructible and full of knowledge , full of bliss - bullet-proof indeed ! So lets chant Hare Krishna and meet again in Vrindavana. Oh and by the way dont bother to bring your handcuffs officer - everyone in Vrindavana is a good citizen. They are all very happy to obey the supreme law , the law of love , love for the Supreme Divine Couple - Radha and Krishna.