Life After Death
≻ Dead and Undead
"In this way the living entity gets a suitable body with a material mind and senses, according to his fruitive activities. When the reaction of his particular activity comes to an end, that end is called death, and when a particular type of reaction begins, that beginning is called birth." More
≻ Shades of Metamorphosis If a human being follows the activities of the animals and does not avail himself of his ability to elevate his consciousness, he falls down the human scale and prepares for an animal body in his next life. More
≻ With or without healthcare ...Our consciousness goes with us at the time of death. Consciousness is carried from the body just as the aroma of a flower is carried by the air. More
≻ Death of a Pop Icon: Where to next? At death, the finer elements (mind, intelligence, and ego), which, combined, are called consciousness, carry the small particle of spirit soul to another body to suffer or enjoy, according to one's work. More
≻ Testimony of a Reincarnated World War II Pilot The first thing is to understand that you are a spirit soul. And because you are a spirit soul, you are changing your body. This is the ABC of spiritual understanding. So, when your body is finished, annihilated, you are not finished. You get another body, just as you may change your coat and shirt. More
≻ Changing Bodies We are changing our blood corpuscles, and therefore a change of the body is taking place, and that is being manifested in a different shape only. Actually, we are changing every moment our body. So the ultimate change, when this body cannot be worked any more, just like a dress, when it is torn, when it is too old, you have to change it. More
≻ We're all on Death Row Death destroys the body made up of the five gross elements, but the subtle body, consisting of mind, intelligence, and false ego, remains. As the air carries the scent of the place it blows over, so the soul carries a person's subtle body of mind, intelligence, and false ego, along with his state of consciousness, on to his next birth... More
≻ What a Pringles can cannot contain So they bury the body or giving some name, some tomb, that is the business of my relatives, my friends, my family members. But as I am, I am aloof from this. I have accepted another body. And then begin my life in a different way. More
≻ Cockroach on the 24th Floor High living, poor thinking [laughter]. No idea that "Now I am living in the skyscraper building on the twenty-fourth story, and next life I'm going to be cockroach here." More
≻ Female feticide commonplace in India, the Land of Dharma The practice of killing children has existed in human society for a long time—since time immemorial—but in the days of yore it was very rarely performed. More
≻ Evolution Interrupted If an animal is staying in a particular body for so many days or so many years and is untimely killed, then he has to come back again in that form of life to complete the remaining days in order to be promoted to another species of life. More
≻ Sir Edmund Hillary: On to the next adventure Just checking on his name in the VedaBase, I came across a news item in a 1993 Back to Godhead, which is not likely to appear in any mainstream news, but is of interest to devotees... More
≻ Misplaced concern over dead bodies The car is dead. The car is moving because you are alive. Similarly, this dead body, this body is dead, already dead from the very beginning, but it is moving on account of the soul. More
≻ Virtual Reality: First Subtle, Then Gross The mind is the subtle substance in which the body is created, as we actually experience in our dreams and also when we are awake in contemplation. One must understand that the process of mental speculation develops a new type of body that does not actually exist. More
≻ Neither Live Nor Die Once when a saintly person was passing on his way, he met a prince, the son of a king, and he blessed him, saying, "My dear prince, may you live forever." More
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≻ Shades of Metamorphosis If a human being follows the activities of the animals and does not avail himself of his ability to elevate his consciousness, he falls down the human scale and prepares for an animal body in his next life. More
≻ With or without healthcare ...Our consciousness goes with us at the time of death. Consciousness is carried from the body just as the aroma of a flower is carried by the air. More
≻ Death of a Pop Icon: Where to next? At death, the finer elements (mind, intelligence, and ego), which, combined, are called consciousness, carry the small particle of spirit soul to another body to suffer or enjoy, according to one's work. More
≻ Testimony of a Reincarnated World War II Pilot The first thing is to understand that you are a spirit soul. And because you are a spirit soul, you are changing your body. This is the ABC of spiritual understanding. So, when your body is finished, annihilated, you are not finished. You get another body, just as you may change your coat and shirt. More
≻ Changing Bodies We are changing our blood corpuscles, and therefore a change of the body is taking place, and that is being manifested in a different shape only. Actually, we are changing every moment our body. So the ultimate change, when this body cannot be worked any more, just like a dress, when it is torn, when it is too old, you have to change it. More
≻ We're all on Death Row Death destroys the body made up of the five gross elements, but the subtle body, consisting of mind, intelligence, and false ego, remains. As the air carries the scent of the place it blows over, so the soul carries a person's subtle body of mind, intelligence, and false ego, along with his state of consciousness, on to his next birth... More
≻ What a Pringles can cannot contain So they bury the body or giving some name, some tomb, that is the business of my relatives, my friends, my family members. But as I am, I am aloof from this. I have accepted another body. And then begin my life in a different way. More
≻ Cockroach on the 24th Floor High living, poor thinking [laughter]. No idea that "Now I am living in the skyscraper building on the twenty-fourth story, and next life I'm going to be cockroach here." More
≻ Female feticide commonplace in India, the Land of Dharma The practice of killing children has existed in human society for a long time—since time immemorial—but in the days of yore it was very rarely performed. More
≻ Evolution Interrupted If an animal is staying in a particular body for so many days or so many years and is untimely killed, then he has to come back again in that form of life to complete the remaining days in order to be promoted to another species of life. More
≻ Sir Edmund Hillary: On to the next adventure Just checking on his name in the VedaBase, I came across a news item in a 1993 Back to Godhead, which is not likely to appear in any mainstream news, but is of interest to devotees... More
≻ Misplaced concern over dead bodies The car is dead. The car is moving because you are alive. Similarly, this dead body, this body is dead, already dead from the very beginning, but it is moving on account of the soul. More
≻ Virtual Reality: First Subtle, Then Gross The mind is the subtle substance in which the body is created, as we actually experience in our dreams and also when we are awake in contemplation. One must understand that the process of mental speculation develops a new type of body that does not actually exist. More
≻ Neither Live Nor Die Once when a saintly person was passing on his way, he met a prince, the son of a king, and he blessed him, saying, "My dear prince, may you live forever." More
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≻ Your Next Body Determined by Higher Authorities You have to change your body. Next body you can get a cat's body or dog's body, a tree's body or a demigod's body or a Brahma's body or a Indra's body, Indian body, American body, serpent body, insect body, bird's body, aquatic, any, any... There is no guarantee. More
≻ Human Civilization Downgraded Nature gave us the opportunity to realize God, but God-realization is meant for human being. The human being, if he does not realize God, he's simply engaged in animalistic way of life—eating, sleeping, mating—then nature will call, "All right, sir, again become animal." More
≻ Scientific Basis of Transmigration of the Soul The difficulty is that we are talking of transmigration of the soul on scientific basis. But you are trying to give it a Hindu color. Why? To become... I have already explained. To become old man is equally applicable to the Hindus, Muslim, Christian. So why you say it is Hindu belief? It is not Hindu belief. It is a science. More
≻ Checking In to Check Out "Now it is settled that I am going to die. The time is fixed already. Within a week, I shall be dying. Now what is my duty?" More
≻ A Guarantee Nobody Can Beat If they simply appreciate "It is very nice," then in the next life, human life is guaranteed. In a very nice family. Simply if he appreciates... More
≻ Disappointed he didn't die on time Parikshit Maharaja had at least time limit seven days, but we do not know whether we will live again seven minutes. Any moment your heart can failure. You do not know. More
≻ Old Age - Out from the Mouths of Babes No one keeps a dead body, however beautiful it might have been and however much affection we might have had for the body while living. That affection stops when life leaves the body. At that time, we can understand that the body is not really beautiful at all; that the element of beauty within the body was actually the soul. More
≻ There must be some mistake - I'm not this body So why there are different types of bodies? Because you wanted a particular type of enjoyment under the influence of material nature. More
≻ Wolf by Degrees Because Krishna knows that I wanted to enjoy something in this material world, He gives me the chance. "Now I give you the opportunity. Enjoy. You wanted a body like this? All right, You take this body." More
≻ Tenuous Shelter: From Conception to Birth Lord Kapila’s instructions on the movements of the living entities, how the living entity is conceived within the womb of the mother, how its body develops, and what its situation is. More
≻ Servant of Dog I have no shame that I have become servant of dog and I refuse to be servant of God. More
≻ Changing Bodies in this Lifetime As you are changing your body, we have changed, every one of us, we have changed body. I was a baby. I was a child. I was a boy. I was young man. Now I have got a different body. Where have those bodies gone? More
≻ At Death's Door "At that time I shall not be able to speak. I'll 'ahn, ahn,' but that's all. So I may not be able to chant Hare Krishna. Better I am now in good health, so let my mind be entangled in the stem of Your lotus feet." More
≻ Where to, next time around? The other day you said that Govinda dasi, she had asked you if in general that we would have to take birth in India before going back home and you said yes. So we were wondering how that's possible that we have to take birth in India. Because we see that they're not very strict Vaishnavas there. So what is it... More
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≻ Human Civilization Downgraded Nature gave us the opportunity to realize God, but God-realization is meant for human being. The human being, if he does not realize God, he's simply engaged in animalistic way of life—eating, sleeping, mating—then nature will call, "All right, sir, again become animal." More
≻ Scientific Basis of Transmigration of the Soul The difficulty is that we are talking of transmigration of the soul on scientific basis. But you are trying to give it a Hindu color. Why? To become... I have already explained. To become old man is equally applicable to the Hindus, Muslim, Christian. So why you say it is Hindu belief? It is not Hindu belief. It is a science. More
≻ Checking In to Check Out "Now it is settled that I am going to die. The time is fixed already. Within a week, I shall be dying. Now what is my duty?" More
≻ A Guarantee Nobody Can Beat If they simply appreciate "It is very nice," then in the next life, human life is guaranteed. In a very nice family. Simply if he appreciates... More
≻ Disappointed he didn't die on time Parikshit Maharaja had at least time limit seven days, but we do not know whether we will live again seven minutes. Any moment your heart can failure. You do not know. More
≻ Old Age - Out from the Mouths of Babes No one keeps a dead body, however beautiful it might have been and however much affection we might have had for the body while living. That affection stops when life leaves the body. At that time, we can understand that the body is not really beautiful at all; that the element of beauty within the body was actually the soul. More
≻ There must be some mistake - I'm not this body So why there are different types of bodies? Because you wanted a particular type of enjoyment under the influence of material nature. More
≻ Wolf by Degrees Because Krishna knows that I wanted to enjoy something in this material world, He gives me the chance. "Now I give you the opportunity. Enjoy. You wanted a body like this? All right, You take this body." More
≻ Tenuous Shelter: From Conception to Birth Lord Kapila’s instructions on the movements of the living entities, how the living entity is conceived within the womb of the mother, how its body develops, and what its situation is. More
≻ Servant of Dog I have no shame that I have become servant of dog and I refuse to be servant of God. More
≻ Changing Bodies in this Lifetime As you are changing your body, we have changed, every one of us, we have changed body. I was a baby. I was a child. I was a boy. I was young man. Now I have got a different body. Where have those bodies gone? More
≻ At Death's Door "At that time I shall not be able to speak. I'll 'ahn, ahn,' but that's all. So I may not be able to chant Hare Krishna. Better I am now in good health, so let my mind be entangled in the stem of Your lotus feet." More
≻ Where to, next time around? The other day you said that Govinda dasi, she had asked you if in general that we would have to take birth in India before going back home and you said yes. So we were wondering how that's possible that we have to take birth in India. Because we see that they're not very strict Vaishnavas there. So what is it... More
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≻ Death Sentence: Silver Lining in the Cloud A small child walking with his father goes on inquiring constantly. He asks his father so
many odd things, and the father has to satisfy him with proper answers.
When I was a young father in my householder life, I was overflooded
with hundreds of questions from my second son, who was my constant
companion. More
≻ The Clock is Ticking, But Time is Not About to Run Out Just Yet The duration of the material universe is limited. It is manifested in cycles of kalpas. A kalpa is a day of Brahma, and one day of Brahma consists of a thousand cycles of four yugas or ages: Satya, Treta, Dvapara, and Kali. More
≻ Nobody Survives Nobody wants death, but we are talking of survival. Who can escape death? There is no possibility. More
≻ Get Out of Danger Now we have a certain body, and when this life is finished, we will never get such a body again. Therefore it is called apurva. We get one chance for having a particular type of body, and when it is finished, we cannot think that we shall again have a body exactly like this. More
≻ Population on the Rise (or Fall into Lower Species?) The modern theory—the population has increased— this is a nonsense theory. If there is production is sufficient, where is the question of population increasing? Let population increase. More
≻ Transmigration of the Soul The subtle body, or the mind, stores up the seeds of actions of one birth in a subtle form and carries them over to another. These seeds of actions not only decide what sort of body the apparent self is to have in its next birth, but chalks out a new line of action to be followed by it in that birth. More
≻ No Time They say that they are too busy in earning money for maintaining the body and soul together. But when we ask them what do they mean by the "Soul", they have nothing to reply. More
≻ "Sir, We Have No Time" They have got sufficient time to smoke, they have got sufficient time for playing cards, they have sufficient time for drinking, going to the cinema, going to the sports. But they have no time for developing Krishna consciousness. More
≻ For One Who is Born, Death is Certain, and For One Who Dies, Birth is Certain At every moment, the living entities are leaving this world. We call it death. But from Bhagavad-gita we understand that it is not death; it is simply a change of body. Just as when we smash a light bulb it is not death for the electricity; but it is just a matter of shifting to another position. The electricity continues to exist, but in another place. Only the container, the bulb, is broken or destroyed. More
≻ Do You Really Know Who You Are? In another part of Srimad-Bhagavatam it is said that just as travelers at an inn meet for some time during their meal and when their meals are finished again go their separate ways, similarly, living entities are brought together by the force of karma in family relationships, communal relationships and national relationships and then are again separated by time. More
≻ Reincarnation The living force brings the material body into existence. The material body is not the living being; but the living being is within this body, spreading its influence all over the body through the medium of consciousness. Consciousness is the symptom of the presence of the soul. More
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≻ The Clock is Ticking, But Time is Not About to Run Out Just Yet The duration of the material universe is limited. It is manifested in cycles of kalpas. A kalpa is a day of Brahma, and one day of Brahma consists of a thousand cycles of four yugas or ages: Satya, Treta, Dvapara, and Kali. More
≻ Nobody Survives Nobody wants death, but we are talking of survival. Who can escape death? There is no possibility. More
≻ Get Out of Danger Now we have a certain body, and when this life is finished, we will never get such a body again. Therefore it is called apurva. We get one chance for having a particular type of body, and when it is finished, we cannot think that we shall again have a body exactly like this. More
≻ Population on the Rise (or Fall into Lower Species?) The modern theory—the population has increased— this is a nonsense theory. If there is production is sufficient, where is the question of population increasing? Let population increase. More
≻ Transmigration of the Soul The subtle body, or the mind, stores up the seeds of actions of one birth in a subtle form and carries them over to another. These seeds of actions not only decide what sort of body the apparent self is to have in its next birth, but chalks out a new line of action to be followed by it in that birth. More
≻ No Time They say that they are too busy in earning money for maintaining the body and soul together. But when we ask them what do they mean by the "Soul", they have nothing to reply. More
≻ "Sir, We Have No Time" They have got sufficient time to smoke, they have got sufficient time for playing cards, they have sufficient time for drinking, going to the cinema, going to the sports. But they have no time for developing Krishna consciousness. More
≻ For One Who is Born, Death is Certain, and For One Who Dies, Birth is Certain At every moment, the living entities are leaving this world. We call it death. But from Bhagavad-gita we understand that it is not death; it is simply a change of body. Just as when we smash a light bulb it is not death for the electricity; but it is just a matter of shifting to another position. The electricity continues to exist, but in another place. Only the container, the bulb, is broken or destroyed. More
≻ Do You Really Know Who You Are? In another part of Srimad-Bhagavatam it is said that just as travelers at an inn meet for some time during their meal and when their meals are finished again go their separate ways, similarly, living entities are brought together by the force of karma in family relationships, communal relationships and national relationships and then are again separated by time. More
≻ Reincarnation The living force brings the material body into existence. The material body is not the living being; but the living being is within this body, spreading its influence all over the body through the medium of consciousness. Consciousness is the symptom of the presence of the soul. More
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