There are 8,400,000 different forms of body

“In this regard, learned scholars and saintly persons describe a very old historical incident involving a discussion between the order carriers of Lord Vishnu and those of Yamaraja. Please hear of this from me.” (SB 6.1.20)

Prabhupada, Honolulu, May 20, 1976:..We have got proof. At night this body is silent, but your mind, intelligence and ego takes you somewhere. You dream that “I have come to here.” Sometimes we dream, “I am flying in the sky,” or gone to some forest or some friend’s house or so many things. “I am talking with a beautiful girl or beautiful man.”

So this dream we every day see. So that means when this body stops, the gross body, the subtle body is there. Why don’t you believe it? Unless the subtle body is working, how do you dream? The dreaming means subtle body is working. So transmigration of the soul means the soul is twice covered—subtle body and gross body—just like shirt and coat.

So when this gross body is finished, the subtle body is there. It takes you to another body. The subtle body with the semina of the father, it is injected in the mother’s womb, and then again you will develop another body.

This is the process of transmigration. So this body, how you’ll be transferred to another body, that will be judged by the Yamaraja. Daiva-netrena. Karmana daiva-netrena. By our activities we shall be judged.

Those who are criminal, they will be judged, not that everyone will be judged. So, and because those who are devotees, they are… Mad-yajino ’pi yanti mam. Those who have devoted their life, dedicated their life only in Krishna consciousness, they are sure. Krishna says, tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti [Bg. 4.9]. That is sure.

They are going back to home, back to Godhead. And those who are not dedicated or taken to Krishna consciousness, they are criminals. They will be taken to the Yamaraja’s court, and Yamaraja will decide what kind of body.

There are 8,400,000 different forms of body, and he will be given a certain type of body. This is called transmigration of the soul. Full Lecture