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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
[[Category:Questions On... Reincarnation, Afterlife, Transmigration of the Soul]]
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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Lectures" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures"><h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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<div class="heading">It is progressive or degressive also.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.14 -- Mexico, February 14, 1975|Lecture on BG 2.14 -- Mexico, February 14, 1975]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hṛdayānanda: (translating) He wants to know if our reincarnations are progressive or regressive.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, it is progressive or degressive also.</p>
<p>Hṛdayānanda: (translating) Why would we take birth as an animal?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Because you act like animal.</p>
<p>Hṛdayānanda: (translating) He says that in school in the material world, if one behaves badly, he has to stay where he is; he cannot progress. But he does not go back. So why...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, sometimes he is given the down class. Sometimes he is degraded: "Go to the down class." Yes. That is quite natural. (laughter) Eh? Down? So any question?</p>
<p>Hṛdayānanda: (translating) He says he doesn't believe that one can go back.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He may not believe in the law, but law is law. If somebody says "I can commit some criminal act, but I don't believe in the court's judgement," will it be accepted? You believe or not believe; the law will act. Just like if you infect some disease, infectious disease, if you contaminate, then you must develop that disease. That is the law. So we are contaminating ourself with different laws of material nature, and according to that law, we have to accept the body. The material laws are not under your control; you are under the control of material laws.</p>
<p>Hṛdayānanda: (translating) If also on other planets one has to continue changing bodies?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, the planets... There are different planets means different facilities of material convenience.</p>
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