Time before next body

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But Prabhuji, before one gets another body he may spend some time in hell,

without a gross body.

 

>From the story of Puranjana we learn how he was dragged out of his body,

tortured for a while, and then given a female body.

 

I also read in the Bhagavatam that there is a time period between transiting

from one body to another. I am sorry, I don't have the quote. But I clearly

remember showing it to several devotees upon finding it. I vaguely remember

it was in one of the first three cantos.

 

 

 

> 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