As you are changing your body even in this present life, you remember that you were a child, you were a boy . . . I remember I was a child, I was a baby. I still remember in my babyhood I was lying down on my elder sister's lap. She was knitting. I can still remember that.
So we can remember our childhood, our boyhood, our youthhood, but I am the same; the body is changing. It is a fact. Similarly, when these bodies ultimately left or changed, I am accepting another body. That is a fact. This is called transmigration of the soul. As we are changing our dress, similarly we are changing our body. And there are 8,400,000's of different kinds of bodies.
So our . . . at present moment, our business is simply to change body, change body. So we do not know what kind of body I am going to take next. There is a vast science about it. So one should know, one should prepare.
Just like you are preparing yourself by education to be well situated in your future life, in this life, similarly, you should prepare yourself to get the best body in your next life. What is that next body? That is answered in the Bhagavad-gītā:
- mām upetya kaunteya
- duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam
- nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ
- saṁsiddhiṁ paramāṁ gatāḥ
- (BG 8.15)
"The highest perfection of life is to come back to Me, and you get the spiritual body, eternal body, blissful life, full of pleasure." Dance with Kṛṣṇa, mām upetya duḥkha, without any miserable condition. That is the highest per . . . saṁsiddhiṁ paramāṁ gatāḥ. That is the highest perfection of life.
You are trying to go to the moon planet, you are trying to go to the sun planet, or you can go any other planet, there are millions of planets. And the highest planet is called Brahmaloka. And modern scientist says that to reach to the highest planet in this universe it will take forty thousands of years. So even if you go there, Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā says, ā-brahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ punar āvartino 'rjuna (BG 8.16).
Anywhere you go, in any planet you go, these four condition of material existence—birth, death, old age and disease—they are existing everywhere. Yaṁ gatva na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama (BG 15.6). But if one goes to that planet, Kṛṣṇa planet, then he hasn't got to come back again; he gets eternal life, blissful life, simply joyful life. So our proposal is that in this life you have got this opportunity, the informations are there, the scientific methods are there—take advantage.
Fully utilize your this valuable life by changing simply your ordinary consciousness to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the greatest boon offered to the human society by Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. If you take advantage of it, then sarve sukhino bhavantu—then you'll become happy.
It is not a mental concoction; it is very authorized. It is accepted by great stalwart scholars and ācāryas. Perhaps some of you know that there are great ācāryas like Śaṅkarācārya, Rāmānujācārya, Madhvācārya, Viṣṇu Svāmī, those who practically guided the whole destiny of Indian civilization—even Lord Buddha, He was Indian—but all of them accepted these authorized scriptural . . .
Don't try to manufacture. There are so many things in store, in Vedic knowledge, and they're all summarized in the Bhagavad-gītā. Try to understand. It is not very expensive or very difficult, but you have to understand it with full brain—then your life will be successful.
So our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means to preach the teachings of Bhagavad-gītā as it is, not to interpret it in a nonsensical way and mislead the people. We don't try to mislead the people. We give without any charges and without any cost, without any loss on your part.
But give a try, this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, simple thing, just chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, these sixteen words: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare.