Deciding for the Future 87
SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes, you can decide. We have
decided that next life we are going to Krsna. This is our
decision— back home, back to Godhead. Suppose you want
to become educated. After this decision that you are going
to be an engineer or you are going to be a medical practi-
tioner, with that objective you prepare and educate your-
self. Similarly, you can decide what you are going to do next
life. But if you don’t decide, then the material nature will
decide.
BARBARA: Could I have been Krsna conscious in my last
life?
SRILA PRABHUPADA: It doesn’t matter But you can
become. Take advantage of our Krsna consciousness
movement.
A DEVOTEE: She’s asking if it was possible that in her last
life she was a Krsna devotee and has come back again.
SRILA PRABHUPADA: When one is perfectly Krsna’s devo-
tee, he does not come back. But if there is a little deficiency,
then there is a possibility of coming back. But even though
there is a deficiency, he comes back to a nice family.
Sucinarh Srimatarh gehe yoga-bhrasto ’bhijayate. (“The unsuc-
cessful yogi takes birth in a religious or aristocratic family,”]
Human intelligence can decide for the future. That is
human intelligence. The animal cannot decide. We have
discriminatory power. If I do this, I will be benefited; if I do
that, I will not be benefited. This is there in human life. So
you have to use it properly. You should know what is our
goal of life and decide in that way. That is human civiliza-
tion... .
BARBARA: Have you ever seen Krsna?
SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes.
