This human form of body is meant for going back to home, back to Godhead. Yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama (BG 15.6). We are eternal. As God is eternal we are also eternal because we are part and parcel of God. As God is always blissful, jolly, similarly our nature is always blissful and jolly. Sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ (Bs 5.1). Sac-cid-ānanda. Sat means eternal and cit means blissful . . . Cit means full of knowledge, and ānanda, ānanda means blissfulness. That is our nature. Therefore we want to live, we do not wish to die. We do not wish to . . . Nobody wishes to die but we are forced to death. That is our punishment. nityaḥ śāśvato ’yaṁ na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre (BG 2.20). This instruction is given in the Bhagavad-gītā, that the living entity is eternal, śāśvata, very very old. Nityaḥ śāśvato ’yaṁ na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre. When the body is destroyed, is annihilated, the soul exists, it goes to another body. The example is just like everyone of us . . . In the first day of intercourse of the father and mother, the secretion mixed together, emulsified, and if the living entity is allowed to enter into that, it grows. That is the beginning of our body. But if the living entity is not allowed into the, that emulsified small pea-like bod (?) then there is no pregnancy.
So attempt is made to pollute that emulsification, therefore the living entity cannot enter into it and there is no pregnancy. Otherwise there must be pregnancy. Then that pea-like body grows and in seven month it grows the hands and legs and heads and everything and consciousness comes back. When we die our consciousness becomes almost stopped and we lie down within the womb of the mother according to species of body, take it for granted our human form of body. Seven months, at that time the body is grown up, and in this way in tenth month the body is fully grown, then by nature’s way the body comes out and another life begins. This is called transmigration of the soul.
So actually we are eternal. In the Vedic language it is said:
- nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām
- eko bahūnāṁ yo vidadhāti kāmān
- (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13)
Nitya, nitya means eternal, and nityānāṁ, nityānāṁ means plural number of nitya. So there are many nityas, many living entities, but there is one nitya, Supreme, that is God. He is also a living entity like us. Then what is the difference? The difference is, we learn from the Vedic . . . (indistinct) . . .: eko bahūnāṁ yo vidadhāti kāmān. That singular number nitya, eternal, maintains the plural number of nityas. We are within the plural number, nityānāṁ.