Today's subject matter is life after death. So we shall try to speak some

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Prabhupada: Today's subject matter is life after death. So we shall try to speak something

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prabhupada: Today's subject matter is life after death. So we

shall try to speak something on this subject. So life after death

is not very difficult to understand. We have got different grades

of life. Just like the child is crying, that is also life. Then

the child body vanquished then gets another body, boy's body.

Then this body also vanquishes. Another body, youthful body. This

body also vanquishes. And then an old man's body like me, this

will also vanquish. So the logic is as the other bodies vanquish

and I get a next body, similarly, when this old body will be

vanquished, I'll get another body. So here it is stated by the

supreme authority Krsna, that as these bodies are changing in

this duration of life... It is changing. The old body, the

child's body, boy's body of me, they are no longer existing, but

I am existing. I know that I had a small body like this. I had a

boy's body, youthful body. I can remember. Therefore I am

eternal. The bodies are temporary. So this is evolution. This

evolution theory... It is not theory; it is fact, stated in the

Vedic literature, Padma Purana, how we have passed through so

many bodies, and ultimately we have got this civilized, human

form of body. We have to pass through 900,000 forms of aquatic

bodies within the water. Then, gradually, we come to the form of

trees and plants. There are two million varieties. Then we get

the bodies of the insect. There are 900,000 forms of body. Then

we enter into the species of birds, one million forms of body.

Then, after bird's body, there are three million different

varieties of beast body. Then, after this period, we become human

body, but there are 400,000 species of human body. And thus we

get this nice human form of body with good brain and good

consciousness. So it should be utilized properly. That... By the

laws of nature, prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah.

This is the law of nature. Gradually we develop different types

of body and different types of consciousness. So when we come

finally to God consciousness, or Krsna consciousness, that is the

perfection of life. So we are living in this planet, but in other

planets also, there are different forms of life. So there is one

planet... There are many millions of planets. Specifically, there

is one planet within this universe, that is called Siddhaloka.

There is other planet also, heavenly planet, Brahmaloka planet.

And in different planets there are different species of life,

different standard of comforts. But in the higher planetary

system, the standard of comfort is more and more, thousand times

more, thousand times more, in this way. Just like in this planet

we have got different standard of life. In your western

countries, your standard of life is, at least, it is to be

understood more comfortable than other standard of life. In this

way, if you promote yourself to the topmost planetary system,

which is called Brahmaloka, then you get your duration of life

many millions of years. It is stated in the Bhagavad-gita that

sahasra-yuga-paryantam arhad yad brahmano viduh. In the

Brahmaloka planet, the residents, they have got their one day.

One day means day time. Not night time. Twelve hours, say. That

is equal to, their twelve hours is equal to our millions of

years. Sahasra-yuga. Sahasra-yuga means 43 hundred thousands of

years multiplied by one thousand. That is called sahasra-yuga.

Such is the, such duration of time is equal to twelve hours in

the Brahmaloka planet. So even if you go to the Brahmaloka

planet... So our natural tendency is to go to other, better

planets. Therefore people are trying to go to the moon planet.

Similarly, you can go to the sun planet, heavenly planet. There

are so many. But the information is, even though you reach the

topmost planet of this universe, still, there the four principles

of material life, namely, birth, death, old age and disease, are

there. So we can go to the topmost planet. There is process how

to go. Urdhvam gacchanti sattva-stha madhye tisthanti rajasah,

jaghanya-guna-vrtti-stha adho gacchanti tamasah. If you keep

yourself in sattva-guna or in the modes of goodness, you are

promoted to the higher planetary system. Even to the topmost

planetary system. That is called urdhvam gacchanti sattva-stha.

And if you keep yourself in the modes of passion, you shall

remain within the middle planetary system. This is middle

planetary system.