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[Canto 7, Ch. 13]
systems (Devaloka or Svargaloka) must prepare to do so. Similarly, if one wants liberation and wants to return home, back to Godhead, he should prepare himself for that purpose.
Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is therefore the highest movement for the benediction of human society because this movement is teaching people how to go back home, back to Godhead. In  Bhagavad-gītā  (13.22) it is clearly stated that different forms of life are obtained by association with the three modes of material nature ( kāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgo 'sya sad-asad-yoni-janmasu ). According to one's association with the material qualities of goodness, passion and ignorance in this life, in one's next life one receives an appropriate body. Modern civilization does not know that because of varied association in material nature, the living entity, although eternal, is placed in different diseased conditions known as the many species of life. Modern civilization is unaware of the laws of nature.
prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā kartāham iti manyate
“The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself the performer of activities that are in actuality carried out by nature.” (Bg. 3.27) Every living entity is under the full control of the stringent laws of material nature, but rascals think themselves independent. Actually, however, they cannot be independent. This is foolishness. A foolish civilization is extremely risky, and therefore the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to make people aware of their fully dependent condition under the stringent laws of nature and is trying to save them from being victimized by strong  māyā , which is Kṛṣṇa's external energy. Behind the material laws is the supreme controller, Kṛṣṇa ( mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sacarācaram ). Therefore if one surrenders unto Kṛṣṇa ( mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te ), one may immediately be freed from the control of external nature ( sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate ). This should be the aim of life.