Serve God in this life to become God-conscious next life; serve dogs and become one.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Pradyumna: [leads devotees in chanting] kathaṁ svid dhriyate daṇḍaḥ kiṁ vāsya sthānam īpsitam daṇḍyāḥ kiṁ kāriṇaḥ sarve āhosvit katicin nṛṇām [SB 6.1.39] [01:10] Translation: "What is the process of punishing others? Who are the actual candidates for punishment? Are all karmīs engaged in fruitive activities punishable, or only some of them?" Prabhupāda: kathaṁ svid dhriyate daṇḍaḥ kiṁ vāsya sthānam īpsitam daṇḍyāḥ kiṁ kāriṇaḥ sarve āhosvit katicin nṛṇām So challenge was replied that "You are representing Dharmarāja. So you have come here to take away this person, and we are prohibiting.
So you have challenged us. So first of all explain your position, whether you know what is dharma and what is adharma, who is punishable, under what circumstance one is punished, and one who is punished, where does he go?" Actually, all these descriptions are there in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, different types of hellish life, what kind of sinful activities are punished by what kind of hellish condition. Everything is there. In the Fifth Canto, everything is there.
There are different planets where Yamarāja is there, how a dead man or the soul is taken there, the path—everything is in detail there. If you say it is mythology... Why you should say mythology? You have not seen the whole universe, how it is situated.
You are simply imagining from this place. So your imagination, imaginology, and we have our mythology. So we have got some evidence, but you have no evidence. At least we have got some support of the books.
But what you have got? You are simply imagining, "I think," "I believe." What is this nonsense? What is your proof? Everyone is saying "I believe." Hundreds and thousands...
And what is correct? Everyone... At least, we have got something correct. We don't say "I believe." This is not our process of knowledge.
We, Kṛṣṇa conscious person, we never say "I believe." No. We immediately quote from the śāstra, that "Here is the statement," śruti-pramāṇam. According to Vedic civilization, evidence is śruti, Vedas. If you say something and if you give evidence, proof from the Vedic literature, then it is perfect. No such nonsense things: "I believe," "We believe," "Perhaps," "Maybe." No.