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Talks Between Nārada and King Prācīnabarhi
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of his downfall. As long as he is within this material atmosphere, he has a subtle vehicle in the form of the mind, which is the stockpile of all kinds of material desires. Such desires become manifest in different bodily forms. Śrīla Nārada Muni requests the King to accept this fact from him because he is an authority. The conclusion is that the mind is the storehouse of our past desires, and we have this present body due to our past desires. Similarly, whatever we desire in this present body will be expressed in a future body. Thus the mind is the source of different kinds of bodies.
If the mind is purified by Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one will naturally in the future get a body that is spiritual and full of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Such a body is our original form, as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu confirms:  jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya—kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’ . “Every living entity is constitutionally an eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa.” If a person is engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, he is to be considered a liberated soul even in this life. This is confirmed by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī:
thā yasya harer dāsye karmaṇā manasā gīrā nikhilāsv apy avasthāsu jīvan-muktaḥ sa ucyate
“One who engages in the transcendental service of the Lord in body, mind, and word is to be considered liberated in all conditions of material existence.” (Bh.r.s. 1.2.187) The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is based on this principle. We must teach people to absorb themselves always in the service of the Lord because that position is their natural position. One who is always serving the Lord is to be considered already liberated. This is also confirmed in  Bhagavad-gītā :
māṁ ca yo ‘vyabhicāreṇa bhakti-yogena sevate sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate
“One who engages in full devotional service, who does not fall down in any circumstance, at once transcends the modes of material nature and thus comes to the level of Brahman.” (Bg. 14.26)
The devotee is therefore above the three modes of material nature and is even transcendental to the  brāhmaṇa  platform. A  brāhmaṇa  may be infected by the two baser modes—namely  rajo-guṇa  and  tamo-guṇa . A pure