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Srila Prabhupada, Rotary Club Address, Hotel Imperial, Delhi, March 25, 1976: […] According to Darwin’s theory, the human form of body comes from monkey. But the evolution is accepted in the Vedic literature but not like Darwin’s. The evolution, again according to Vedic scripture, is that the living entity is different from the body, and the living entity is passing through many forms of body.
We shall read that. So the bodies are according to my desire. I am desiring something. Just like here we are sitting, so many ladies and gentlemen, but not one of them is similar to anyone else. They have got different bodies. That body is created according to one’s desire. The mind, the subtle mind, is the creator of the next body. Yam yam vapi smaran bhavam tyajaty ante kalevaram [Bg. 8.6].
At the time of death whatever I am thinking, a similar body will be offered to me by the laws of nature. Subtle body. The mind, intelligence and ego, they are subtle body, and the gross body is made of earth, water, air, fire, ether. So when we give up this gross body, the subtle body carries me to another gross body.
This is the way of transmigration of the soul. The prakrti, nature, nature’s law, is very strict and stringent. The nature will immediately offer you a similar body according to the thinking at the time of your death. Tatha dehantara-praptih.
Therefore this human form of body is meant for going back to home, back to Godhead. Yad gatva na nivartante tad dhama paramam mama [Bg. 15.6]. We are eternal. As God is eternal, we are also eternal because we are part and parcel of God.
As God is always blissful, jolly, similarly our nature is always blissful and jolly. Sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah [Bs. 5.1]. Sat, cit, ananda. Sat means eternal, and cit means blissful, cit means full of knowledge; and ananda. Ananda means blissfulness. That is our nature. Therefore we want to live.
We do not wish to die. We do not wish… Nobody wishes to die, but we are forced to die. That is our punishment. Nityah sasvato ’yam na hanyate hanyamane sarire [Bg. 2.20]. This instruction you will get in the Bhagavad-gita, that “The living entity is eternal,” sasvata, “very, very old.” Nityah sasvato ’yam na hanyate hanyamane sarire: [Bg. 2.20] “When the body is destroyed, is annihilated, the soul exists. It goes to another body.”
The example is just like every one of us… In the first day of intercourse of the father-mother, the secretion mix together, emulsified, and if the living entity is allowed to enter into that, it grows. That is the beginning of our body. But if the living entity is not allowed into the, that emulsified, small pealike form, then there is no pregnancy.
So attempt is made to pollute that emulsification. Therefore the living entity cannot enter into it and there is no pregnancy. Otherwise there must be pregnancy. Then that pealike body grows, and in seven months it grows the hands and legs and head and everything, and consciousness comes back.
When we die our consciousness becomes almost stopped, and we then lie down within the womb of the mother according to species of body, a status—take it for granted our human form of body—seven months. At that time body is grown up. In this way, in tenth month the body is fully grown. Then by nature’s way the body comes out and another life begins. This is called transmigration of the soul.
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