Learning the Science of the Soul 49

The central question, said Bigelow, was ‘‘where is the soul and where
does it come from?”

Srila Prabhupada Gives the Vedic Evidence

My dear Dr. Bigelow:

Please accept my greetings. Recently I have read an article in the
Gazette by Rae Corelli entitled ‘‘Heart Surgeon Wants to Know What a
Soul Is,’’ and it was very interesting. Your comments show great insight,
and so I thought to write you on this matter. Perhaps you may know that I
am the founder-dcarya of the International Society for Krishna Con-
sciousness. I have several temples in Canada—Montreal, Toronto,
Vancouver, and Hamilton. This Krsna consciousness movement is
specifically meant to teach every soul his original, spiritual position.

Undoubtedly the soul is present in the heart of the living entity, and it
ts the source of all the energies for maintaining the body. The energy of
the soul is spread all over the body, and this is known as consciousness.
Samce this consciousness spreads the energy of the soul all over the body,
ome can feel pains and pleasures in any part of the body. The soul is in-
Gividual, and he is transmigrating from one body to another, just as a per-
gon transmigrates from babyhood to childhood, from childhood to
boyhood, from boyhood to youth, and then to advanced old age. Then
the change called death takes place when we change to a new body, just as
we change our old dress to a new dress. This is called transmigration of
the soul.

When a soul wants to enjoy this material world, forgetting his real
home in the spiritual world, he takes this life of hard struggle for exis-
tence. This unnatural life of repeated birth, death, disease, and old age
ean be stopped when his consciousness is dovetailed with the su-
preme consciousness of God. That is the basic principle of our Krsna
movement.

As far as heart transplant is concerned, there is no question of success
amiess the soul is there in the heart. So the presence of the soul has to be
accepted. In sexual intercourse, if there is no soul, there is no concep-
tion, no pregnancy. Contraception deteriorates the womb so that it no
longer is a good place for the soul. That is against the order of God. By
the order of God, a soul is sent to a particular womb, but by this con-
traceptive he is denied that womb and has to be placed in another. That is
