Category:Questions On... Reincarnation, Afterlife, Transmigration of the Soul
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- A dog (We have been given chance to understand God. But if you don't understand, then next life you become a dog)?
- According to karma (varieties of the body, according to the mentality)?
- After death no death?
- After leaving this material realm does the devotee remain forever with his spiritual master?
- After taking birth again, how does one continue his spiritual progress?
- After we die, what happens to our spirit?
- All the devotees here are your disciples, Srila Prabhupada, eternal disciples, eternal servitors. But what if we have to take birth in the material world in the next life? How will we be able to render direct service unto you?
- Am I to understand that women cannot go back to Godhead without being reincarnated to the male?
- And how long does this go on (are you say that we were perhaps something else before we were born as well? And we keep coming back in something else next time)?
- Another thing is they know they are taking body again and again. They are taking the body again and again after birth. Why they are committing again and again sins and which mode of nature...?
- Any kind of living entity who takes prasadam or hears the name, that it will come back at least to human form of life. Is that correct?
- Are we all part of Krsna and at the time of death if we think of Krsna, like we become what? Like meshed in with Krsna?
- Are you say that we were perhaps something else before we were born as well? And we keep coming back in something else next time?
- Are you suggesting that every person, whether he is Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or Jew or Parsi or anybody else for that matter, should accept the Hindu doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of soul?
- Are you talking about reincarnation, life after death?
- As long as I continue my identity that "I am so and so, I am this body," or "I am a person, or atma seated in this body, or dwelling in this body," when I dislodge my body from atma, then what is the position?
- As soon as the modes of nature are no longer working on the spirit soul, then he experiences that he's no longer changing his body?
- As the spirit soul is leaving the body, do you become older?
- At rebirth do we all return as a male if the previous existence was a male, or do we change
- At the time of death, soul goes with the actions, the past?
- At the time of death, when the soul leaves the body, at that time the body is destroyed. So at the time of sleeping, when the soul leaves the body, how is the body maintained?
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- Before the body, the soul is still there?
- Body is finished and atma is emerged. So, what, why the atma suffers next generation for the deeds done by the body in this life?
- Both the human and the animals (the spirit soul is passing through different dresses)?
- But do You mean that up till now your excellency were giving the question of transmigration, field of science, and now you are also taking that subject of God in this sphere of science?
- But the bones of those people that they've found, where are their bodies now? Have they gone to some other...?
- But what if you are reincarnated into other planets? Is it less painful, or is it the same procedure?
- But who was responsible for bringing this body into existence? ... The owner?
C
- Can a man become, after his body dies, I mean, say, an animal or an insect of some sort?
- Can a person who eats meat obtain a human birth? Or he must be put back into animal species, meat-eaters?
- Can I ask a question? Am I to understand that women cannot go back to Godhead without being reincarnated to the male?
- Can the living entity perceive the situation at this time, when he's being transferred from one body to another?
- Can we decide what we want to be in our next life?
- Can you explain to me just a bit more, if the soul is undying, does everybody's soul go to be with God when they die? Do you have a belief in a heaven or a hell?
- Consciousness is also subject to body's changes, change of body?
- Could I have been in my last life?
D
- Dehino 'smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara. Could it be said, then, that we are transmigrating even while in this life?
- Delhi, some astrologer said (one astrologer has said that Jawaharlal Nehru has become a dog in Sweden)?
- Did you say through a particular ritualistic process you can go there in your next life?
- Do most human beings fall down into the animal species?
- Do we believe in reincarnation? She wants to know if we believe in reincarnation
- Do we get a second chance if we don't make the most of this life? In other words, is reincarnation part of your...?
- Do we take these births in a human form all the time, or perhaps do we take a birth in perhaps an ant or a rat or a dog, or will it always be in the human form if we believe in Krsna consciousness now?
- Do you believe in a life after death for the body?
- Do you believe in a resurrection?
- Do you believe in reincarnation?
- Do you just keep changing bodies indefinitely or does it end?
- Do you take rebirth in human form literally?
- Do you understand your previous lives from the descriptions in authoritative texts, or from any introspective recollection of your own?
- Do you, in your creed, do you believe in metempsychosis, that is the soul going through one form of life and then if it lives badly, the person lives badly, it comes back in another form and so on? Do you believe in the metempsychosis?
- Does ISKCON believe in reincarnation?
- Does one go into a subtle machine?
- Does that (they think catching fish is great sport, great fun) mean that the people that catch the fish have to also become fish?
- Does that mean that once one enters the material world, there's only progress in going back to Godhead, although it may be slow, over many lifetimes?
- Does the soul reincarnate?
- Does the soul which passes from body to body, does it or he experience the pains and pleasures of my body?
- Dogs, they are becoming attached to the human being. Are they becoming human beings in their next life?
- Don't they sometimes have to go to Yamaraja first for practice?
- During the time when the living entity is transferred from one body to another, is he always fully conscious of the subtle facts?
- During this transformation, are we still ignorant? During this transformation from body to body.
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- Even if we don't surrender to Krsna in this life, will everyone surrender to Krsna? Will everyone go back to Godhead eventually?
- Everyone becomes Brahma first?
- Everyone has to go through all the 84,000,000 journeys, or is that to, like, you know, on his pious or impious karma he might go through only the vegetable class or he might go through only the animal life?
H
- Happens after death, where do we pick up?
- He can perceive that he has changed from child to old man, but he can't perceive what is going to happen after death. So who knows?
- He has become a dog, Nehru?
- He is asking when you take birth again do you take birth as the same sex or do you change your sex?
- He wants to know if our reincarnations are progressive or regressive
- How can I know if I wasn't Krsna conscious in my last life?... Could I have been in my last life?
- How can it be that we're advancing if we can become a dog in the next life, is that it, or something inferior? Where is the question of progress?
- How can one come to have faith that there is life after one leaves his body?
- How can one establish faith in the principle of reincarnation? How can one come to believe in it?
- How can we feel the transmigration of the soul?
- How do we know that we're going to have a body in the next life?
- How do you regard abortion? At what stage does the spirit enter into the womb?
- How does the spirit soul of a beast enter into the form of a human being?
- How is it benefiting (to automatically pass through all the different species) him (the living entity)?
- How is it that people who have done some pious activity, they get a nice birth in this statement, but usually people who are not wealthy or not so educated, sometimes they more or less take to worshiping Krsna or God?
- How is it they can see continuity between baby's body and young boy's body and young man's body, they say, "Oh, he's still here," but they can see no continuity between this body and...?
- How is the spirit held in the system till it finds a new body?
- How many births do we have?
- How the body goes away?
I
- I am the constant change, the process (you remember, that "I was a child." But the child body is no longer. So you remember or not remember, the body is changing. This is the answer. This is self-realization)?
- I feel, but have no proof, that I have experienced in my, in the things I do, which lead me to believe that my experiences based on a memory I don't understand which, which belongs to previous lifetimes. Now is that, a fa...?
- I want to make sure I understood - that chanting this over a long time will also help affect where our body will go after we die, what form we'll come back in?
- I wanted to know what processes happen to the spiritual soul between a beast and human life
- I'm not sure that I understand the process by which one might be thinking of something in his mind, and how that soul is put into a body similar to what that thought is. In other words, how can the soul be subject to what the mind is thinking of?
- If a man does not understand God in this lifetime, is he still accepted by God?
- If a neophyte devotee is with determination endeavoring for purification but he were to meet with death as he is still influenced by the lower modes, although he is seriously trying, then does he take another birth or does he go to Krsna?
- 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.
- If I come in contact with Krsna movement now, will that in my next life get me a human body?
- If I go from birth, youth, old age, then what is to say that I am again going to youth? They will say, "What is that logic? How I will go again to youth? Simply I will go again and vanish away"
- If one arrange in this lifetime for others to render service to Krsna, but if the purpose is to simply maintain his family and if he's still attached to sense gratification, at the time of death, will he attain a birth in a family of Vaisnavas?
- If one is going to assume a dog's body, then does he go to hell before he assumes a dog's body?
- If the Mayavadis don't believe in the difference between the soul and the Supersoul, then what is their explanation of reincarnation?
- If the soul is eternal and passes through one body after another, how is not possible that it accepts, let's say, three, four, five bodies and then dies?
- If there's a certain criteria of proof or a certain evidence that we can know for certain that there actually is such transmigration of the soul?
- If they have information that this is not the only life, then won't they automatically become more austere?
- If we do not finish our Krsna consciousness in this lifetime and we have to take birth in material world, can we worship the same spiritual master as our previous birth?
- If we don't finish our Krsna consciousness in this life, how we come in contact with the guru in next life?
- If we have not already achieved perfection, then how can the soul achieve the perfection? It seems that he has to reincarnate slowly in time to achieve the perfection
- If we've been here lifetime after lifetime performing impious activities, does it mean that we have to be here lifetime after lifetime performing pious activities to balance out our sinful reactions?
- Immediately (after we die you get another body)?
- In order to be involved in devotional service and execute devotional service in this life, we had to have some devotional service last life. So therefore, were you here last life too, to give us this devotional service?
- In our next life we will be put in a situation immediately where we can take up Krsna consciousness again or will we have to suffer karma before we come into Krsna consciousness?
- In what form (when this body will be changed, you'll exist in another body)?
- Is it possible for any spirit not ultimately, after his various transmigrations through bodies, is it possible for any spirit never to regain contact with the Lord?
- Is it possible for one to know how many lifetimes it takes to reach spiritual perfection?
- Is it sometimes possible that a person is reborn in the same body?
- Is it that a man becomes a man after the death?
- Is it true that can a human body takes a form of a human body in the next birth?
- Is it true that when you die, when you're going to die, you get another life?
- Is that (when then this man leaves this body and again enters in the womb of the body which he is destined to get) immediate?
- Is that immediately after one dies you transfer to another body, or later (you are associating with some modes of material nature. So according to that association, you'll get next body)?
- Is that possible, that the living entity can remember (last life)?
- Is that what is meant when a man thinks when he dies (according to your desire, you'll get a body), at the moment...?
- Is the objection to eating meat based on transmigration from animal to man?
- Is there a jiva (a spirit soul) in every sperm cell? Does the spirit soul only come to a particular sperm cell, or is there one in every sperm cell, and the condition isn't right, so then it dies before, I mean, it leaves before it actually forms a body?
- Is there a way of knowing that the body you inhabited before was of a inferior quality than the one you're inhabiting now, or...?
- Is there any point in your practice do you consider yourself free from taking lower re-births?
- Is there any way I can prepare (suppose if God says that "You become a dog," can you check it?)?
- Is this continual reincarnation only occurring on this earth, or does it occur on other planets?
- Is this your last body? If so, how do you know?
- It is written in Gita the soul never dies. When the soul does not die, where does it go after that?
- It's only if you haven't got rid of these impurities that you have to return, take on another body?
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- Nehru (some astrologer has said. He has become a dog in Sweden)?
- No, I want to say, like at the point of death we are also changing to another body. Do we feel that then?
- No, most of them, they have lived, a very short times. But still is it a fact that the soul is transplanted from one body to another body?
- No, why do we at all enter into this circle (of changing bodies)?
- Now it's true that a soul must evolve through perhaps many lifetimes in order to reach the point at which he is ready to attempt renunciation. Right?
- Now, a question concerning the 8,400,000's of lives which man has to evolve through. A spiritual being, having entered, or placed, the way of man, can he ever gain a reincarnate in the kingdom of animals?
P
- People accept them (the rebirth cases in medical bulletins)?
- Personality is there certainly, but is it continued? Is there a continuity of personality from the dead body to the new body?
- Prabhupada, how can one know whether he'll be going back home to Godhead in this life?
- Prabhupada, if our body should meet death while engaged in your service, will our transmigration be protected in the ultimate...?
- Prabhupada, if the spiritual master has a mission, is it proper for the disciple to think that he can take more than one..., he can take many births to help the mission of the spiritual master?
- Prabhupada, that, perhaps, contradicts with the theory of reincarnation?
- Prabhupada, these people, dogs, mostly are atheist? Atheist, they take the birth as the dog?
- Prabhupada, when a living entity is in an animal body, and when he quits his body, there's no karma, he's just automatically promoted to a higher body?
- Prabhupada, when the living entity, when the jiva leaves the body at death, is there any interim period before it takes up another body or does it happen immediately?
- Prabhupada, you said that devotees, after becoming fully pious, have to take another birth in the material world and in somewhere where Krsna is performing His pastimes, before going back to Vaikuntha?
- Prabhupada? For every animal except the cow, you said, like a..., does a person have to pay off a one-to-one ratio for the animal killed? He just has to come back one time for, like, killing a goat? Is it just one time then, instead of many times?
- Prabhupada? When the soul transmigrates from one body to another, the consciousness of that gross body, does the person retain some of the consciousness of his past lives with that transmigration?
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- Say if a human being falls down into the animal species, after that, does he go through each and every one of these species successively? Even there are different types of dogs, he becomes each different type of dog?
- She asks what is the difference between our understanding of reincarnation and the Christian concept of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Christ said he would come again. Is there a difference? Is it the same thing?
- She's asking if it was possible in her last life she was a Krsna's devotee, in her last life, and come back again? If you're a Krsna's devotee coming back again?
- So by joining this movement we come to the platform where we can take birth in India in a nice brahmana family?
- So by our behavior (indistinct) will determine what sort of body we will get when we return?
- So how can one be out of this cakra?
- So I do not know why you have asked about my previous life. Whether I was subjected to the laws of material nature?
- So if a scientist or someone who has some degree in science comes to our movement, should we encourage him to try to prove through science the Krsna conscious principle of transmigration and eternal quality of the soul?
- So if we have to wake again, then there's no really.... Why should we have to stop birth and death?
- So the cow which is untimely killed takes birth as a cow again?
- So the living entity who is in the lower body like insects or plants... And he passes through all the species?
- So the only way to beat that cycle is ajnata-sukrti?
- So the service that we offer now, are we going to get it back in another life?
- So there's no end to the samsaras?
- So those who do not develop their Krsna consciousness fully must again take a birth?
- So what determines the different varieties of dogs and cats if they are just automatically being...?
- Some people have been said to have remembered events in their previous lives. How are these reminiscences or ideas different from innate ideas? How is it possible for one to recall events?
- Someone can know what the life force is going to do in the future, how it will manifest itself in the future?
- Sometimes people ask, Prabhupada, that if one falls down into lower species of life like plants or animals, how then do they come again to the human form of life?
- Sometimes the devotees ask if they can take birth again distributing books for you
- Srila Prabhupada, even if there is a life after death, I don't know what it's going to be like, so why should I worry about it now?
- Srila Prabhupada, if meeting you here now would make sure that he would get a human form in his next life?
- Srila Prabhupada, if one's life is achieved by one's consciousness, how is it one cannot remember one's previous life?
- Srila Prabhupada, my understanding of the evolution and the transmigration is that evolution is uni-directional, only in one direction. Whereas the transmigration can be both, in both directions. They can go up or can go down?
- Srila Prabhupada, once you said that to stop this transmigration, one has to become completely disgusted with this material world. What about Lord Caitanya who prayed that "I don't mind coming back again and again"?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the position of vrajavasis, those who are living in Vrndavana now? What happens to them next life?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the value for the living entity to automatically pass through all these different species? Does he get any knowledge?
- Suppose a person thinks of God all his life and dies, and a person who doesn't think of God at all also dies. What is our life after death?
- Suppose he (if somebody says, "Man dies," it is perfect knowledge) is reincarnated?
- Swamiji, do you believe in reincarnation?
- Swamiji, you mentioned that death is actually sleeping for seven months? Is this provided you take on a human form of life? If you take on a dog's body then it's still seven months?
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- That jiva comes along with the rain?
- That there is another world and that you go there or you come back and all. This is a belief, isn't it?
- That's actually susupti (living entity does not die; he remains unconscious for seven months)?
- The activities of the materialistic man, then, no matter what he does, he will develop another material body for it. Is that right, Srila Prabhupada?
- The Bhagavad-gita has stated that whatever one's consciousness is during his lifetime will be at the time of his death, and that will determine his next body. Now, one who is living very lustily during his lifetime, his mind will be on that body
- The body is the dress of the soul; so when the body falls off and dies, where does the soul go?
- The evolution stops when the spirit soul reaches the eternal abode in the spiritual (world)?
- The good man gets a better body or a good body?
- The person is the same but the false personality changes then (so soul continues with his reaction of past deeds, and even though he forgets what he has done in the past, Krsna is there. He reminds that "You wanted to do this. Do it now.")?
- The platform of transmigration from the human platform, so it works, either it can go down or it can go up?
- The slightest tinge of a material desire will force him to take another body. Is that it?
- The soul is going on always, changing one body to another body, then how the soul is liberated?
- The varieties of living entities that we find in the material world, can we explain because of the desire of the living entities, to make..., to live in different houses?
- There is statement like that, that one is put into the hellish condition for practicing little, and then he is put into the womb of such mother... Is that a long duration of practice or just..., very short?
- There must be different kinds of taking of a body, because there are different kinds of bodies. The bodies of dogs and deers and things are not the same as the body of Krsna. Now, how do you take on this form of Krsna?
- They say at the time of death they will learn a lesson, but if, when they go into a new body, they forget, how will it help them?
- They say it is impossible for any man to know what will happen to him after death. It is not possible, so why think about it?
- They say, "We don't remember. We don't remember being a hog, so what is the harm?"
- This body that we inherited, the bodies that we're in now, are the results of the behavior of our souls when we were in our previous... And then can we sort of, by looking at ourselves, can we get the sort of person we were when we were here before?
- This is a continuation of Jung. Concerning whether or not karma is personal, Jung concludes, "Have I lived before in the past as a specific personality, and did I progress so far in that life that I am now able to seek a solution?"
- This lady heard your lecture about how the soul reincarnates in different kinds of bodies. So she wants to know how is this possible because in the West, our understanding is that the animal forms do not possess a soul
- This man's imitating the bird means that he will become a bird?
- This tends to show that trees have been once before in human form and then have really fallen. But is it also the case that there are, amongst the forms, many souls that are on the process of evolution and going upward in the same way?
- Those who come up from the animal species, do they automatically get a chance to contact Krsna consciousness, or do they, might be born in low family, or?
- To know what kind of body I am going to accept next will allow me to continue to improve... beyond... the normal sixty-five or seventy years that I might live in what I imagine to be this body?
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- We have already had a hog's body. So we didn't like it. Otherwise, why would we change?
- We have no guarantee what our next birth will be. But, say, can't mystic yogis who perfect certain mystical powers, do they have any guarantee of a human birth in their next life?
- What about reincarnation, Srila Prabhupada? What about transmigration of the soul? 'Cause we were thinking to do that for a next film, because it seems like a very natural thing
- What about the cows that they slaughter? Do they have to continue in a cow birth?
- What about when someone goes to the hellish regions though? He actually suffers there?
- What do you think about the factor in reincarnation? Do you think it has got any significance?
- What does the government of India say about that (one astrologer has said that Jawaharlal Nehru has become a dog in Sweden), any comment?
- What happens to his consciousness which he has achieved as a man during that time which he is in the animal kingdom?
- What happens to the jiva souls who were fruits and vegetables that were offered to Krsna?
- What happens to the Vaisnava if he is following the spiritual master and he's not successful in spiritual life? Does he also take birth on higher planets like it says in the Bhagavad-gita?
- What happens to us immediately after our material body dies?
- What he wants to know is, when the soul leaves the body completely, what happens after that?
- What is it that you take with you (after death)?
- What is the "we" that has to change? What is constant between one life to the next?
- What is the difference of changing our body during our lifetime and at death?
- What is the harm if I become an animal also?
- What is the harm of being a cat or a dog?
- What is the ultimate (the flavor of a rose garden is carried by the air or the bad odor of a filthy place is also carried by the air, similarly, mind, intelligence carries me to a particular type of body as I was absorbed in thought at the time of death)?
- What kind of a capacity is knowledge? Does that depend on the previous body of the soul?
- What merits a person coming back in human life? It seems like an elevated birth. How does mode of passion give one the opportunity of human life?
- What sort of body we have been in in the past?
- What's going to happen to you in the next life?
- What's the next evolutionary step for these flowers that we offer to Krsna?
- When a person dies, his soul will take another body? Then why is the population today increasing?
- When a spirit soul first falls from the spiritual sky into the material world, does he first go to the lowest of the 8,400,000 species of life, and then gradually come up, or can he fall to the middle or anywhere?
- When our soul gets out from our body, it goes to the hell or... hemisphere or it take birth immediately afterwards?
- When some new animal or person is born, is the soul always a reincarnation of some previous soul?
- When that promotion comes, Srila Prabhupada, they are not immediately born into a society like American or...?
- When we get the next body does our mind retain much of what is learned in the life before? At least the general principles? Or does it start all over again and live within that body and gain its knowledge through that body?
- When we speak about the transmigration of the soul, we speak about 8,400,000 species. Does that include the inanimate objects as well, within those 8,400,000?
- When you say taking on the body of a dog or a cat or a pig or whatever, is this also... Do you mean literally a body like a pig, or do you mean the nature of a pig or dog or cat?
- Where does the spiritual life lead us? How should people recognize whether we do take birth in our next life or not?
- Where will I go at the time of death if I am thinking of my spiritual master?
- Who is in charge of giving us our next body?
- Why (the production of the body in the cosmos is compulsory? Why it is not lila) compulsory?
- Why a dog (We have been given chance to understand God. But if you don't understand, then next life you become a dog)?
- Why do you not explain that about subtle being carried forward?
- Why is it in the Vaivarta Purana, after traveling 8,400,000 species of life, we get this human form of life? Is that contradiction with the desire of the spirit soul?
- Why or how could the personality or the individual jiva soul return to a lower life-form? That is to say, how could a greater experience regress to a lesser experience?
- Why should we accept that the living entity will not die?
- Why should we accept that there will be a next life?
- Why would we take birth as an animal?
- Why, is it a faith or belief (first of all you have to understand that there is life after death)?
- Why, then, Srila Prabhupada, is a person given a human body then, if they...?
- Will I ever, in another life, will I feel my "I," my ego? Will I feel that again?
- Would it not be better to say that the living entity is born with certain tendencies, rather than innate ideas, which carry over from a previous life?... And that he needs only meet with some stimulus in order for these tendencies to be manifest?
- Would that also be due to that soul's karma, that he has gone from being aborted on to another body?
- Would the prior life have to be an animal life?... Or could the prior life also be human life?
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- Yeah, within one material life (gain release from birth, death, and old age)? You necessarily don't have to return?
- Yes. Can you scientifically prove this, sir (you'll get next body according to that mentality)? I mean is it purely a matter of belief or...
- You always return as an animal?
- You spoke about transmigration of souls, and reincarnation. If you believe in it, could you answer me by telling me how someone who has entered a new body and a new life doesn't remember anything of the past?
- You stated that the reason that we forget is that we change, the body changes. Now when we chant, we remember. I wish you could sort of elaborate on why we forget. I don't completely understand
- You were saying how one can take birth as a dog even, so she's wondering how long does this go on. How many births does one take like this?
- Your Divine Grace, you referred to the body as simply matter. Do you believe in a life after death for the body, the human body?