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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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So long you have to remain within this material world with material desires, then you have to change your body according to your desires, and there are 8,400,000 forms of bodies you have to accept. There is no guarantee, because you do not know what body you are getting next.
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[[Vanisource:730221 - Lecture BG 02.13 - Auckland|730221 - Lecture BG 02.13 - Auckland]]
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Now you can ask, what is the advantage of Kṛṣṇaloka? The advantage is also described in the Bhagavad-gītā:

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:mām upetya kaunteya
:duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam
:nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ
:saṁsiddhiṁ paramāṁ gatāḥ 
:([[Vanisource:BG 8.15 (1972)|BG 8.15]])
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"Anyone who comes to, comes back to Me," mām upetya—mām means Me—"Then he doesn't come back again in this material world." In this material world you have to change your body, that is a fact. That is described here, tathā dehāntara-prāptir. Just like you are changing your body from childhood, from babyhood to childhood, childhood to boyhood, boyhood to youth-hood, in this way we have got different bodies in this life, in this span of life. Similarly, after this body you will have to accept another body, tathā dehāntara-prāptir. So long you have to remain within this material world with material desires, then you have to change your body according to your desires, and there are 8,400,000 forms of bodies you have to accept. There is no guarantee, because you do not know what body you are getting next. That will depend on your work, and the according your work at the time of death, the mentality at that time will create your body next. This is the law.

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:yaṁ yaṁ vāpi smaran loke
:tyajaty ante kalevaram 
:([[Vanisource:BG 8.6 (1972)|BG 8.6]])
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We give up our body, as we are accustomed to think, this is our life. Naturally we shall think like that. Sometimes we think, "This is not yet finished. I have to do this, I have to . . ." Sometimes, the politicians and others, everyone thinks, so he again comes back to such a, I mean to say, favorable type of body and again executes this. This is going on. This is called material life, bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate ([[Vanisource:BG 8.19 (1972)|BG 8.19]]). But as soon as you accept a material body, you are subjected to the four principles, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi: birth, death, old age and disease. So if you want to avoid this material inconveniences, then take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and accept a body which is suitable for living in Kṛṣṇaloka. That is the highest perfection of life.
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