Question (translated): Does the soul reincarnate?
Prabhupāda: Yes, the soul does not manipulate. It simply . . . just like you had your childhood body, boyhood body. Now you have got a body of young man, youthhood body. And again you will get an old man's body, just like I have got. So these bodies are changing. Here everyone can remember that, "I had a small body," but that body is not existing anymore. But I know that I possessed such body. Similarly, when this body will be finished, you will accept another body. You may forget it. Death means forgetting. But the body, changing of body is going on perpetually, and spiritual life means how to stop this change of body and remain in the spiritual body that is blissful and full of knowledge.
Dhanañjaya: One more question. One more question only.
Question (translated): If Kṛṣṇa is good, why we are sent in this world of miseries, where . . .
Dhanañjaya: If Kṛṣṇa is all-good, why does He sends us to this world full of miseries?
Prabhupāda: Just like the government is good, but why do you go to prison house? When you go to the prison house, it is not the government who puts you in the prison house. You commit sinful activities; therefore you are put into the prison house. It is the government's duty to manage whether a man should be put into prison house, whether a man should go to the university. But the difference of individual activities. Similarly, God does not want you to put into miserable condition. You put yourself in miserable condition, but God comes, and He sends His representative to give you relief, how to get out of that miserable condition. The conclusion is that Kṛṣṇa does not put you in miserable condition, but He helps you get out from the miserable condition.
Question (translated): Why shouldn't the word surrender be cancelled in the Bhagavad-gītā where Kṛṣṇa says to Arjuna, "You should give up all types of religion and simply surrender unto Me"? Why shouldn't this word surrender be cancelled, from the vocabulary? . . . (indistinct)
Dhanañjaya: He said why shouldn't the word surrender be cancelled in Bhagavad-gītā where Kṛṣṇa says to Arjuna, "You should give up all types of religion and surrender unto Me"? Why shouldn't this word be cancelled, the word surrender?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Surrender is for your interest. If you surrender, then you become happy. So long you do not surrender, you are under miserable condition. Just like this father, and the son is disobedient. On account of disobedience, the son suffers. But as soon as the son surrenders to the father, he becomes happy.