Chant Hare Krishna always to purify your heart and escape the cycle of transmigration forever.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Lecture — September 10, 1972, Dallas 720910LE-DALLAS [43:57 Minutes] Lecture_720910LE-DALLAS Prabhupāda: You can read them or you can simply take this process of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. The effect of this chanting will be, first instalment to cleanse your heart, ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam [Cc. Antya 20.12]. We are suffering in this material world, of course foolish persons they think they are not suffering they are enjoying, but actually you are not enjoying you are suffering. But because we have become less intelligent we take suffering as enjoyment.
That is the result. That is the symptom of raja-guṇa. There are three qualities of the material world, sattva-guṇa, raja-guṇa and tamo-guṇa, goodness passion and ignorance. So those who are… 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 pitèn 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.