Śyāmasundara: If by our karma we desire a certain type of body but they create all the bodies to be the same, how is that? But men are tampering with the bodies.
Prabhupāda: Let them create first, then say. Where is the man they are creating? It is simply theory.
Līlāvatī: That living entity would still have the same desire, that previous desire for that previous body, won't he? If some scientist can change the genes so that the jīva can have a different kind of body, he still would have the previous desires?
Prabhupāda: No, no. That is not possible. If his body... The word is daiva netreṇa: by superior arrangement. So how these rascals can be superior? They are not.
Atreya Ṛṣi: And also, Prabhupāda, in case, for example some scientist makes a change, like if the scientist comes and cuts off my hand, that's also my karma. In that way he's not making a change. Everything that is happening is God's plan.
Prabhupāda: No, no, no, no, no. Everything, even if it is not in my karma, I can cut, I become responsible for cutting.
Atreya Ṛṣi: In other words, if somebody comes and cuts my hand...
Prabhupāda: Yes. He can do that. He creates his own karma.
Atreya Ṛṣi: Jaya. But how about my karma?
Prabhupāda: My karma is that such thing may happen. Your karma is that he'll also cut his hand, next life.
Atreya Ṛṣi: The fact that my hand got cut this life, wasn't this due to something I did before? (end)