Q90. What body will you get next?

Your consciousness at death will determine your next body. This life is a preparation for the next. During each day of this life, you are developing a particular type of consciousness, which will manifest into a particular body at death. It’s just like a manufacturing company designing its products today to produce tomorrow. It’s very easy to determine what your next body will be: *

If you have eaten animals, then you will become an animal and be eaten

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If you are full of hate and anger towards others, then you will become an aggressive animal

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If you have cursed others with a life of hell. Then you will end up in hell

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If you like to expose your body, then you will become a tree, naked and exposed to all

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If you like to eat everything and anything, then you will become a hog, who eats anything and everything

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If you are attached to a dog, then you will become one (a dog)

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If you are friendly to all living beings, then you will get another human body

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If you are friendly to all living beings and know who God is and serve him. Then you will be finished with material life and go back to the kingdom of God (Vaikuntha), where you will live eternally and play with God everyday

“Just as the air carries a particular smell from one place to another, the living entity will be carried to a particular body at death, based on the consciousness developed by him during life. On taking a new body, the living entity will get a particular set of senses, like ears, eyes, tongue, smelling potency, sense of touch, and mentality. The foolish persons cannot understand how a living entity quits one body to take another. But those with knowledge can see this.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-Gita 15.8-10) “Whatever nature, one has at the time of death. That nature he will attain without a doubt." (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-Gita 8.6)