Generally in this age people are very much passionate as a result of this passionate quality they actually suffer by working very hard but they take it as enjoyment. This is called illusion. To commit mistake, to be illusioned, to cheat and to use our imperfect senses for gathering knowledge. These are four defects of conditioned soul. Therefore to take knowledge from conditioned soul is not perfect knowledge because the conditioned soul is defective. Physician heal thyself. The physician himself if he is diseased or suffering from some ailment, how he can treat others?
So all our leaders they are blind, they have no perfect knowledge, they do not know what is after this body. As we have... everyone of us this experience that we had a body like a child, we had a body like a boy, like a young man, now I am aged but those bodies are no longer existing. I don’t find where is my other childhood body, where is my boyhood body, where is my youthhood body but I remember that I was a child, I was a boy, I was a young man. So I am existing although my bodies are no longer existing.
Therefore the conclusion should be that even after an illusion of this present body I’ll exist in another body. They do not know the subtle laws of nature that I have got, everyone has got two bodies, one gross and one subtle. Everyone experiences, every night about this gross and subtle bodies. The gross body lies down on the bed and the subtle body carries me to a different island where I see different enjoyments, friends talking with different men, forgetting the subtle body lying on the room.
So there are two kinds of bodies, subtle body and gross body. So when this gross body is no longer usable then the subtle body carries me to another womb of mother according to my work and I get a gross body and after a few months I come out with this body and begin my activities. This is called transmigration of the soul, the soul is transmigrating from one body to another and there are 8,400,000 species of forms we have already passed through and we shall come to the human form of body, especially civilised human being.
So at the present moment our duty is to enquire about God, athāto brahma jijñāsā. If you are missing this point, if you don’t enquire about God in this human form of life then there is no guarantee what kind of body I am transmigrating, next life. The transmigration is there, I have already explained by the subtle body, but we can get information from śāstra just like Bhagavad-gītā. It is stated there;
- yānti deva-vratā devān
- pitṟn yānti pitṛ-vratāḥ
- bhūtāni yānti bhūtejyā
- yānti mad-yājino 'pi mām
- (BG 9.25)
Those who are worshippers of demigods they go to the particular planet or planets, there are many millions and trillions of planets both within this material world and spiritual world. So we are wandering in different forms of life, in different planets by the process of transmigration of the soul. Now this human form of life is a facility, where we shall go next, that facility we have got. So that is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, if you want to go to the planets of the demigods, the moon planet is also accepted as one of the demigodly planets according to our śāstra.
Those are very much expert in karma-kāṇḍa yoga who do fruitive activities they are promoted to the moon planet. Similarly there are other planets also, the topmost planet is called Brahma-loka where Lord Brahmālives there the duration of life is very very long. In every planet, the moon planet is one of the heavenly planets there also if you can reach, if you go there you get your duration of life 10,000s of years. That is according to demigodly calculations. Our one year, our one-day, our six months is equal to one day.
So in this way you can live there for 10,000 of years but if you go still higher planetary system your one day is millions of years but still there is birth, death, old age and disease. No planet, nowhere within this material world, you can live forever although you have got the tendency to live forever because actually you are eternal you want to live forever but circumstantially we are forced to accept change of body and that we are doing even in this present life so in order to stop this transmigration and in order to achieve the highest perfection, namely eternal blissful life of knowledge then we can become Kṛṣṇa conscious, always thinking of Kṛṣṇa, simply this method will help you.