Time before next body

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At 00:22 07/10/2005, Mithila (das) PVS (London - UK) they said to all of us:

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Dear Prabhu,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

 

>The living entity immediately gives up the present body and enters another.

>SB 4.29.76-77

>

>The next body has to be immediately accepted according to karma.

>SB 5.13.1

>

>At the appropriate time, one's next body is immediately chosen, and both the

>individual soul and the Supersoul transfer to that particular bodily

>machine.

>SB 6.1.31

>

 

What I can't understand then, is this, some (or most) living entities

go to the hellish punishment for some time, there is also mentioned

by some devotee the ceremony after death, that the soul may stay for

13 or 14 days? Perhaps immediate in terms of eternity takes account

of 14 days. One devotee sent me a quote (didn't say where from

though), that when a soul is to enter a human or animal body, it

takes 30 days after being in the hellish planets, any more comments?

 

 

 

 

Your servant,

 

 

Ananta Purusottama das.

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Thank you for this research. So simple, and so clear. Srila Prabhupada Ki

Jay!

 

ys gnd

 

> The living entity immediately gives up the present body and enters

> another. SB 4.29.76-77

>

> The next body has to be immediately accepted according to karma.

> SB 5.13.1

>

> At the appropriate time, one's next body is immediately chosen, and both

> the individual soul and the Supersoul transfer to that particular bodily

> machine.

> SB 6.1.31

>

> Because nature is so perfect, at the time of your death, what is the

> mental condition, you will get a similar body, next life. Karmana

> daiva-netrena [sB 3.31.1]. Because daiva, Krsna is with you. Krsna will

> see, "Now he is thinking of become a king. Now he is thinking to become a

> dog." So Krsna immediately gives you. You take the body of a dog. You take

> the body of a lion. You take the body of a king. Take the body. Similarly,

> if you are thinking of Krsna, take the body of a Krsna, immediately.

> Bhagavad-gita 2.9 -- London, August 15, 1973

>

> The nature will immediately offer you a similar body according to the

> thinking at the time of your death.

> Bhagavad-gita 2.11 -- Delhi, March 25, 1976

>

> You can try to understand. Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti: [bg. 4.9] we

> accept another body immediately after death. It is said just like go

> forward, when the first step, you find it is secure, you take up the

> second step. Similarly, as soon as the next body is arranged by superior

> arrangement, we give up this body and enter into another gross body.

> Immediately. Immediately we are transferred to a mother's womb for

> manufacturing another gross body. This is the law.

> Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.22 -- Vrndavana, November 2, 1972

>

> As soon as I am desiring something, immediately my body is formed.

> Immediately a particular type of body begins to form, and as soon as I am

> mature to change, my next body I get according to my desire.

> Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.1.1 -- New York, April 10, 1969

>

> So after death -- after death means when this body is finished -- then you

> get another body immediately, because you have already made the field

> work, what kind of body you will get.

> Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.26-27 -- Philadelphia, July 12, 1975

>

> As I have several times discussed that the, at the time of death, the

> mental condition will help you to have another next body, mental

> condition. So if your mental condition is very nice, whatever you think,

> God has given you chance: you get next immediately.

> Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.7.22-26 -- San Francisco, March 10, 1967