God's Superior superintendence

Expressions researched:
"superior supervision" |"rewarded and punished" |"service record" |"how the spirit soul transmigrates"

Other Books by Srila Prabhupada

Kṛṣṇa Consciousness, The Matchless Gift

One should always consider that behind all these activities is superior superintendence.

Kṛṣṇa Consciousness, The Matchless Gift, 3

The living entity works in the material world just as the office worker works at his job, and a service record is kept of his performance. The living entity does not know what the opinion of his superior is, but his service record is kept in the office nonetheless, and according to his activities he is awarded promotion or increment of pay, or sometimes he may be demoted or even fired. Similarly, for all our activities there are witnesses; therefore it is said in the scriptures that the living entities are under superior supervision and that they are rewarded and punished according to their work. Now we have human bodies, but in the next life we may not have them; we may have something else, better or lower. The type of body is decided by the living entity's superiors. Generally the living entity does not know the science of how the spirit soul transmigrates from one body to another.