These same writings also teach us of the existence of the dreadful servants of Yamaraja, the lord of death and judge of guilty souls appointed to this post by God, who seize by the force of the sinful soul, the take to Yamaraja, so that she may be judged, that she undergoes the sanction corresponding to the guilty acts committed and condition her for her next reincarnation, in the prison of a material body.
In her mother's womb, being is unconscious. In truth, death amounts to sinking into unconsciousness for about (9) nine months. The spiritual being does not die, it simply lives in a state of unconsciousness during this period of time. There are three levels of existence: awakening, dreaming and deep sleep, or unconsciousness. When the human being dies, he passes from the waking state to the dream state, and then sinks into a deep sleep.
In truth, transmigration, also called reincarnation, means that the human being leaves his physical body of dense matter, and the ethereal body, formed of mind, intelligence and ego, carries it to another body. It then remains in a state of deep sleep until this new body is ready, that is, for about nine months for humans, and more or less for animals.
The living being, the embodied spiritual soul, transmigrates (reincarnates) from one material body to another of various forms, of celestial beings, human beings, animals or plants.
When the living being is given the form of a celestial being, he is clearly happy. When he receives a human body, he is sometimes happy, but sometimes he is also unhappy. And when he has to put on the body of an animal, he constantly experiences fear. However, whatever the conditions of his existence, he suffers terribly from the fact that he has to know these four forms of suffering; birth, sickness, old age and death. Its misfortune bears the name of transmigration, of reincarnation of the soul through various living species.
We must all put on a body in harmony with our level of consciousness. Thus the transmigration of the soul takes place. The average man sees only the physical body, but not the mind, intelligence and ego, which follow him. When the body is destroyed, they remain, although invisible. In truth, it is the ethereal body, composed of mind, intelligence and false ego [identification with one's body and the desire to dominate matter], which carries the soul into a new body. The soul does not die with the material body.
Consciousness, which is none other than the manifestation of the energy of the soul, survives the destruction of the body. According to his degree of consciousness, the incarnate being acquires a new body where consciousness begins again to shape his future lives. The person who practiced devotion in his previous life will become a devotee of Krishna again after his death. Once the material body is destroyed, the same consciousness goes back to work in a new body. We can see, moreover, that some accept without hesitation the consciousness of Krishna, God, the Supreme