# Transmigration *On the change of bodies and struggle for existence* --- ### Great Trouble to Accept Another Body > So, so long our mind will be absorbed in the bodily concept of life, we have to accept another body after death. And to accept another body means great trouble. Just like this child, when he was within the womb of the mother for ten months, packed up... Of course, by nature's arrangement one can live, but actually it is very troublesome. Then after coming out of the body, the child is helpless. He cannot express these troubles—sometimes cry. If mother is careful, takes care; otherwise he is in great trouble. Suppose some ant is biting, he cannot express; he cries simply, and mother also cannot detect why the child is crying. This is the position. — [[spoken/1974/740129ar.tok|Arrival, Tokyo, January 29, 1974]] --- ### The Whole Life Is Struggle > In this way, again growing up, no child wants to go to the school—he is forced to go to the school. Then when he is grown up, again family man to take responsibility of family. So the whole life is struggle for existence, then old age, so many disease, frustration, and again death. Again death means again enter into the mother's womb, again packed up, again come out, and that is also not sure what kind of body he is going to get next. There are 8,400,000 forms of bodies, and we can get any one of them. So this change of body is not very good job, but people do not know the science. They are ignorant of this transmigration of the soul, and they are working hard, dying, again taking birth—not as human being; maybe human being or more than human being, or cats and dogs, trees, there's so many. — [[spoken/1974/740129ar.tok|Arrival, Tokyo, January 29, 1974]] --- ### No Permanent Situation > So this is our real problem. In ignorance we accept one kind of body and stay for some time; again we are kicked out—no permanent situation. In this way we are under threefold miserable conditions offered by the material nature. — [[spoken/1974/740129ar.tok|Arrival, Tokyo, January 29, 1974]] --- ### Spiritual Activity Is Eternal > So it is so nice that even one falls down, it will not... Whatever he has done, whatever you have done, that is your permanent asset. Permanent asset, because it is spiritual. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is spiritual. As spirit soul is eternal, permanent, similarly, any activity on the spiritual platform is eternal. It will never be lost. So there are many instructions like this. — [[spoken/1968/680508sb.bos|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.1, Boston, May 8, 1968]] --- ### Seed-Giving Father > The Darwin's theory... He does not know. He has caught up some words from this *Padma Purāṇa* and tried to give his own invention. The evolution is already there. But this is the evolution: from aquatics to plants, trees, then insect, then bird, then beast, then human being, civilized and not civilized. Then demigods, then others. That is the evolutionary process. So Kṛṣṇa says that *sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya sambhavanti mūrtayo yāḥ*: "All kinds of forms that are coming out of the 8,400,000 species of life," *tāsāṁ mahad yonir brahma ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā,* "I am the seed-giving father, and the material body is given by the material nature." Just like father gives the seed, impregnates the mother, and the mother supplies the body. The body belongs to the mother, and the spirit soul belongs to—not be...—to the supreme father. But it comes through the material father. Actually the supreme father is Kṛṣṇa. Therefore He says, *ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā.* — [[spoken/1975/750131bg.hon|Bhagavad-gītā 16.5, Honolulu, January 31, 1975]] --- *5 verified verbatim quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on transmigration*