Prepare Ourselves Nicely For Next Life - Prabhupada 0927

690616 - Lecture SB 01.05.13 - New Vrindaban, USA

We are under the grip of material nature. The . . . karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa (SB 3.31.1). You are working under the influence of certain material quality, and you are preparing your next life. You cannot say: "All right, I am very happy. I am . . . I'm born in America. My nation is very great nation, and we are very rich. So I shall, next life also, I shall come to America. I shall take my birth here and enjoy like this." Oh, that is not in your hand. That you cannot say. That is daiva-netreṇa. Daiva. Daiva means that is in the supernatural power. Daiva. The same thing: daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā (BG 7.14).

You cannot say. Daiva-netreṇa. You are preparing your life. The higher authorities will give you chance. If you prepare yourself nicely, you get good chance; you get birth in higher planet. Or if you prepare himself . . . yourself nicely, then you go to Kṛṣṇa even. Now it is your choice.