Prabhupāda: Rules, God rules, are perfect, and it is being perfectly done. Sometimes we misunderstand.
Guest (2): Then how do we take the meaning of earthquakes and natural disasters which could destroy the lives of pure people as well as impure people?
Prabhupāda: No, every life is pure. The body is pure and impure. So anyway, after destruction, the life is not destroyed. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre (BG 2.20). The destruction of body does not mean that the soul is destroyed. No. He gets another body. The body is . . . one body is destroyed, and he transmigrates to another body. And so far your question about the earthquake, so suppose if there is plane crash, there are many good men, bad men, so everyone is crashed. But the good man gets a good body again, the bad man gets a bad body again.
Guest (2): The good man gets a better body or a good body?
Prabhupāda: Good, better or worst, bad, according to his karma. Just like your shirt, you throw away on account of being old. Now you have to purchase another. But there are many varieties of shirt-coat. As you pay for it, you get. If you can pay nice price, you get silk shirt-coat. But if you cannot, you get ordinary cotton or jute. So your body will be according to your karma, or work. (pause) Why the other boys went away? Two, three boys?
Parivrājakācārya: They said they had to go.
Prabhupāda: Oh. So these things has to be learned first, that "I am not this body; I am spirit soul. I am changing my body, and this is botheration." So if there is any way to stop this changing, that is required. That . . . that is possible to be done in this human form of life.