110 Srimad-Bhagavatam [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 Krsna consciousness movement is therefore the highest move-
ment for the benediction of human society because this movement is
teaching people how to go back home, back to Godhead. In Bhagavad-
gita (13.22) it is clearly stated that different forms of life are obtained by
association with the three modes of material nature (kd@ranarn guna-
sango ’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.

prakrteh kriyaménani
gunaih karmani sarvasah
ahankdara-vimidhatma
kartaham 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 ac-
tuality 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 Krsna 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 maya,
which is Krsna’s external energy. Behind the material laws is the
supreme controller, Krsna (mayddhyaksena prakrtih  stiyate
sacaracaram). Therefore if one surrenders unto Krsna (mam eva ye
prapadyante méyam etam taranti te), one may immediately be freed
from the control of external nature (sa gunan samatityaitan brahma-
bhiiydya kalpate). This should be the aim of life.
