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<div class="heading">In any stage of life, there is past, present, and future. So why not, I am old man, so when I shall die, why there is no future? There must be future. I had my past, I am at present, and there must be future also. The future is that I must get another body.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.8 -- New Vrindaban, September 6, 1972|Lecture on SB 1.2.8 -- New Vrindaban, September 6, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
Just like in my this life, I can experience. In each stage of my life, I have my past, present and future. You are all young boys. You had your past, as a child, as a boy. Now you are young, and your future is also there as old, as I have become old. So in any stage of life, there is past, present and future. So why not, I am old man, so when I shall die, why there is no future? There must be future. I had my past, I am at present, and there must be future also. The future is that I must get another body. That body may be of animal or trees or demigod or God.

That is stated in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'': ''yānti deva-vratā devān pitṟn yānti pitṛ-vratāḥ'' ([[Vanisource:BG 9.25 (1972)|BG 9.25]]). You can prepare yourself for your next body. So ultimate goal is to get a body in the kingdom of God. That is—''saṁsiddhiṁ paramaṁ gataḥ''—that is highest perfection. You can get a body next in . . . as a human being in the rich man's family, or as a king, or as a leader, or as a cat, as a dog, as a tree. That will depend on your work. Similarly, you can get your next body as associates of God, Kṛṣṇa. That is stated, that you can have: ''mad-yājino 'pi yānti mām'' ([[Vanisource:BG 9.25 (1972)|BG 9.25]]). "Those who are My devotees, they come to Me," Kṛṣṇa says.