I am eternal

There is a spiritual body of the spirit soul eternally existing, and the material body is simply coating of the spiritual body. This material body is considered as coating, shirt-coat. It is cut according to the bodily shape. Just ordinarily we can see the tailor makes the shirt and coat according to the shape of the body. Similarly, these material elements, earth, water, fire, etc., mixed together, becomes like a clay, and it is coated over the spiritual body. The spiritual body has no connection with the material body. So because the spiritual body has got shape, the material body also takes a shape. That is understanding. But material body has nothing to do with the spiritual body. It is simply external coating, or it is a kind of contamination for suffering of the spirit soul. As soon as we are coated with this material contamination, he identifies himself with the coating and we forgets our real, spiritual body. That is called ignorance, and this ignorance continues so long as we are not fully Krishna conscious. When one becomes fully Krishna conscious, then they understand that this material body is the external coating. So when one comes to this understanding of his spiritual identity, they becomes joyful, , their is no more any hankering or lamentation. In that position we sees all other living entities as spirit soul. We does not see the outward covering.