parents, celestial, human or animal, and depending on the activities of that person during that life, another vehicle will be created for her, always under the direction of the material energy that acts under the authority of Krishna, God. When the time comes, our next body is immediately determined, and the individual soul as well as the Supreme Soul are transported into this new "machine", this new body. This is how transmigration or reincarnation is done. During the transfer from one body to another, the soul is carried away by the servants of Yamaraja, the master of death and sinner appointed by God to this post, who first make it pass through a certain type. of infernal life so as to accustom her to the condition that she will have to live in her next body.
Our thoughts, words and actions cause effects and therefore consequences, good or bad.
It is the acts committed in the past or the previous life of a being which determine the conditions of his next birth or reincarnation. The suffering of guilty acts has two origins: the acts themselves, but also those committed in previous lives.
The origin of the guilty acts happens to be most often ignorance. But the fact of ignoring that an act is guilty does not allow to avoid, if one commits it, its undesirable consequences, which give rise to other guilty acts. On the other hand, there are two kinds of faults: those which are, so to speak, mature, and those which are not yet so. "Mature failures" means those whose consequences we are currently experiencing; the others are those which, many, are accumulated in us and have not yet produced their fruits of suffering. The man who commits a crime may not be immediately caught and sentenced, but he will be sooner or later. Similarly, for some of our faults, we will have to suffer in the future, as for others, "mature", we are suffering today.
So there is a succession of faults and sufferings, plunging life after life the soul conditioned in pain. She suffers in this life the consequences of the acts committed in her previous life, and prepares, by her present acts, new sufferings in the future. "Mature" or "completed" faults may result in a chronic illness, trouble with the law, low birth rate, inadequate education or poor physical appearance. Our past actions overwhelm us today, and our present acts prepare us for future suffering. But this chain can be broken at once for one who adopts the Consciousness of God and serves it with love and devotion. This means that the devotional service offered to God is able to reduce any stain to nothing.