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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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The witnessing bird is God, Kṛṣṇa, and the eating bird is the living entity. So God is witnessing all our activities and our mental situation. So He orders māyā, the external energy, prakṛti that, "He requires to be given a body like this," and the material nature gives the living entity a particular type of body, and they are numbering 8,400,000s.
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[[Vanisource:730725 - Lecture BG 01.32-35 - London|730725 - Lecture BG 01.32-35 - London]]
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So when we try to connect with the Supreme, then we can understand there is God and I am also there; we have got intimate relationship. That is explained in the Vedas. Two birds are sitting on the same tree. One bird is eating the fruit and the other bird is simply witnessing. The witnessing bird is God, Kṛṣṇa, and the eating bird is the living entity. So God is witnessing all our activities and our mental situation. So He orders māyā, the external energy, prakṛti that, "He requires to be given a body like this," and the material nature gives the living entity a particular type of body, and they are numbering 8,400,000s.

So there is no certainty what kind of body I am going to get next life. But in the Bhagavad-gītā it is explained that if you are situated on the mode of goodness, then you will get your place in the higher planetary system.

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:ūrdhvaṁ gacchanti sattva-sthā
:madhye tiṣṭhanti rājasāḥ
:jaghanya-guṇa-vṛtti-sthā
:adho gacchanti tāmasāḥ 
:([[Vanisource:BG 14.18 (1972)|BG 14.18]])
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There are three qualities, material nature. They are working. And we are under the influence of either of them—either in the influence of goodness, or in the influence of passion or in the influence of ignorance. So when we are under the influence of ignorance, jaghanya-guṇa-vṛtti, then our behavior and activities becomes very abominable, very, very much abominable. And especially in this Kali-yuga, it is stated that people will have no fixed time for eating or sleeping or taking bath. In this way, their bodily features will be like ghost. That we are seeing actually. The hippies, they are becoming. Practically in this age there will be no place even for taking daily bath. That we see especially in this country. The apartment, there is no bathing place. They have to go outside.
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