We have a choice.
The spiritualist who wishes, can go to all the planets of the material universe. He can access the abode of Krishna in the transcendental kingdom, from where he will never again have to descend into the material universe, or to go to the heavenly planets, the higher planets of our galaxy.
The accomplished spiritualist is free to adopt either of these paths. For the perfect spiritualist who thus manages to leave his body while keeping full possession of his consciousness, going from one planet to another is as easy as, for an ordinary man, to go to the corner grocery store.
In truth, man is a trilogy. It is composed of three parts: the soul proper which is its true spiritual identity, its real self, the ethereal body which encloses the soul, and the body of dense matter which encloses the whole. The material body is only the envelope of the spiritual soul.
The mind, intelligence and false ego or material ego form the etheric body and thus the inner envelope in which the soul is enclosed, and the material body made of earth, water, air, fire and ether constitutes the outer envelope.
Any spiritualist who has attained spiritual realization and who understands the relationship between dense matter and the soul, can leave the material garment of the soul at will in a perfect way.
By God’s grace, we enjoy complete freedom. In his perfect benevolence towards us, the Lord allows us to choose where we want to live. In the material cosmos or in the spiritual world, on the planet of our election. It is the misuse of this independence that causes the spiritual being to fall into the material world where it is forced to suffer the three kinds of suffering inherent in conditioned life [Those from the body and mind, those caused by other living entities, and those that originate from the elements of material nature, such as extreme cold or heat, lightning, earthquakes, hurricanes, drought, etc.].
Make the same choice I made. Let us all choose to return to the spiritual world where our original home is located in the kingdom of God.