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Talks Between Nārada and King Prācīnabarhi
1443
and scientists cannot account for the transferral of  karma  from one body to another. As we experience, every individual soul has an individual body, and one person's activities, or one body's activities, are not enjoyed or suffered by another body or another person. The question is how the activities of one body are suffered or enjoyed in the next.
TEXT 59
इति वेदविदां वादः श्रूयते तत्र तत्र ह । कर्म यत्क्रियते प्रोक्तं परोक्षं न प्रकाशते ॥५९॥
iti veda-vidām vādaḥ śrūyate tatra tatra ha karma yat kriyate proktam parokṣam na prakāśate
iti —thus;  veda-vidām —of persons who know the Vedic conclusions;  vādaḥ —the thesis;  śrūyate —is heard;  tatra tatra —here and there;  ha —certainly;  karma —the activity;  yat —what;  kriyate —is performed;  proktam —as it was said;  parokṣam —unknown;  na prakāśate —is not directly manifested.
TRANSLATION
The expert knowers of the Vedic conclusions say that one enjoys or suffers the results of his past activities. But practically it is seen that the body that performed the work in the last birth is already lost. So how is it possible to enjoy or suffer the reactions of that work in a different body?
PURPORT
Atheists want evidence for the resultant actions of past activities. Therefore they ask, “Where is the proof that I am suffering and enjoying the resultant actions of past  karma ?” They have no idea how the subtle body carries the results of the present body's actions down to the next gross body. The present body may be finished grossly, but the subtle body is not finished; it carries the soul to the next body. Actually the gross body is dependent on the subtle body. Therefore the next gross body must suffer and enjoy according to the subtle body. The soul is carried by the subtle body continuously until liberated from gross material bondage.