"Why there are varieties of life. One is tree, one is cat, one is dog, one is human being, one is blind, one is lame, one is educated, one is foolish—why? Why the difference, varieties? And that is answered in the Bhagavad-gita, karanam guna-sango ’sya: As you are infecting the modes of material nature, you are getting your birth. Otherwise, how you can explain by nature there are so many varieties of life, 8,400,000 species of life?"
Prabhupada, Calcutta, March 8, 1972: […] We think that after finishing this body, everything is finished. But that is not the fact. Otherwise, why there are so many varieties of life? The varieties of life are because there are varieties of sinful activities.
Because there are varieties of sinful activity, therefore we have got varieties of karma. Otherwise, if there would have been one class of activity, why there are different varieties of body? This is common sense. Who is giving us these different type of body?
My body is different from your body, your body, so now we are sitting here, say fifty or hundred men—everyone’s body is different from another body, you’ll find. Then you go to other species of life, that is also different from other and other. So why this difference? Because we are differently situated according to our karma.
Karmana daiva-netrena jantur deha upapattaye [SB 3.31.1]. Karmana daiva-netrena. We do, we act according to our whims, but that whims is judged by daiva-netrena, by a higher, superior authority, just like Yamaraja. Then we get another body. This is the process. Yam yam vapi smaran lokam tyajaty ante kalevaram. Bhagavad-gita also says. We should be very, very careful.
We should be very much cautious to utilize this human body perfectly. That is Krishna consciousness movement. We are simply teaching people how to utilize this human form of body properly, so that you can be saved from future danger. Saved from… But they are so fool, naradhamah, duskrtinah, mayayapahrta-jnana. They are thinking that “This Krishna consciousness movement is a religious sentimental movement. They’re dancing and chanting.’’ No.
It is the most scientific movement. Any scientist may come and talk with us, we shall convince. It is the most scientific movement, how to save the human society. Therefore it is called raja-vidya, the king of all knowledge. And raja-guhyam.
Speak Your Mind