Adi-lila, Chapter 9 241

TRANSLATION

““By his work, thoughts and words, an intelligent man must perform actions
which will be beneficial for all living entities in this life and in the next.’

PURPORT

Unfortunately, people in general do not know what is to take place in the next
life. To prepare oneself for his next life is common sense, and it is a principle of
the Vedic civilization, but presently people throughout the world do not believe in
a next life. Even influential professors and other educators say that as soon as the
body is finished, everything is finished. This atheistic philosophy is killing human
civilization. People are irresponsibly performing all sorts of sinful activities, and
thus the privilege of the human life is being taken away by the educational propa-
ganda of the so-called leaders. Actually it is a fact that this life is meant for prepara-
tion for the next life; by evolution one has come through many species or forms,
and this human form of life is an opportunity to promote oneself to a better life.
This is explained in Bhagavad-gita:

yanti deva-vrata devan
pitfn yanti pitr-vratah

bhutani yanti bhutejya
yanti mad-yajino’pi mam

“Those who worship the demigods will take birth among the demigods; those who
worship ghosts and spirits will take birth among such beings; those who worship
ancestors go to the ancestors; and those who worship Me will live with Me.’’ (Bg.
9.25) Therefore, one may promote himself to the higher planetary systems which
are the residence of the demigods, one can promote himself to the Pitrloka, one
can remain on earth, or one can also go back home, back to Godhead. This is
further confirmed by Bhagavad-gita (4.9): tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam
eti so 'rjuna. After giving up the body, one who knows Krsna in truth does not
come back again to this world to accept a material body, but he goes back home,
back to Godhead. This knowledge is in the sastras, and people should be given the
opportunity to understand it. Even if one is not able to go back to Godhead in one
life, the Vedic civilization at least gives one the opportunity to be promoted to the
higher planetary systems where the demigods live and not glide down again to
animal life. At present, people do not understand this knowledge, although it con-
stitutes a great science, for they are uneducated and trained not to accept it. This is
the horrible condition of modern human society. As such, the Krsna consciousness
movement is the only hope to direct the attention of intelligent men to a greater
benefit in life.
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