# Reincarnation *On transmigration of the soul* --- ### Changing Bodies > Just like you are changing your body. You had a child's body. Where is that body? That body is gone. You had a youthful body. Where is that body? That body is gone. But you are still there. So the body is changing, but the soul is not changing. — [[spoken/1976/760619sb.tor|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.3, Toronto, 1976]] --- ### 8,400,000 Species > This life is preparation for the next life. It is a great science, but people do not know it. They are simply leading a life like cats and dogs, not knowing what is next life, what they are going to have. There are 8,400,000 forms of life. You may get any one of them according to your work. — [[spoken/1975/750310bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 7.2, London, 1975]] --- ### According to Desire > Kṛṣṇa is so kind, ye yathā māṁ prapadyante. As you desire, Kṛṣṇa gives you. If you desire to become a tiger, He will give you a tiger's body. If you desire to become a devotee, He will give you a body like a devotee. So everything depends on your desire. — [[spoken/1976/760619sb.tor|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.3, Toronto, 1976]] --- ### Act Like Dog, Become Dog > If you eat and sleep and act like dog, then become dog next life. And if you act like god, then you'll get god, very easy thing. So whatever you like, you can do. But the śāstra gives you direction. — [[spoken/1975/750310bg.lon|Bhagavad-gītā 7.2, London, 1975]] --- ### Consciousness at Death > At the time of death, whatever state of being one remembers when quitting his body, that state he will attain without fail. This is the law. If you remember Kṛṣṇa at the time of death, you go back to Kṛṣṇa. If you remember your cat, then you become a cat. — [[spoken/1968/680816jm.mon|Janmāṣṭamī Lecture, Montreal, 1968]] --- ### Never Born, Never Dies > The spirit soul is never born or is never dead. He continues his life even after the destruction of this particular type of body. This body is only a flash, for some years only. But it will be finished. It is being finished by degrees. — [[spoken/1968/681202bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1, Los Angeles, 1968]] --- ### Soul Continues > Death is inevitable. Nobody can check death. That death may come at any moment. Old age or childhood, it doesn't matter. Everyone is subjected to death. But the soul continues. The soul never dies. — [[spoken/1976/760619sb.tor|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.3, Toronto, 1976]] --- ### Stop the Cycle > The whole Vedic civilization is how to get out of this cycle of birth and death. Not how to improve material conditions. That is not possible. You may improve for some time, but again you will fall down. So the real business is how to stop this cycle. — [[spoken/1972/721017sb.vrn|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.6, Vṛndāvana, 1972]] --- ### No More Birth > There is no other way to escape death and old age and birth. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya. If you always think of Kṛṣṇa, then you are guaranteed that after leaving this body, there is no more material body. — [[spoken/1972/721017sb.vrn|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.6, Vṛndāvana, 1972]] --- ### Practice Remembering > The whole process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is to practice remembering Kṛṣṇa. Then at the time of death, naturally you will remember Kṛṣṇa. And if you remember Kṛṣṇa, your life is successful. You go back to Kṛṣṇa. — [[spoken/1968/680816jm.mon|Janmāṣṭamī Lecture, Montreal, 1968]] --- *10 quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on reincarnation* [[wiki/quotes|Back to Quotes]]