Those who commit acts of cruelty become animals hungry for bloody flesh like cats and felines.
Those who eat forbidden foods become worms, thieves, and beings who devour one another.
Those who court women of the lower social classes become pretas [ghosts].
One who has had relations with degraded men, who has known another's wife, or who has stolen something, but not gold, from a wise scholar, will become a spirit called a brahma-raksasa [a powerful ghost. When a wise scholar becomes a ghost, he becomes a brahma-raksasa].
If a man has stolen precious stones, pearls, coral, or jewelry of various kinds out of greed, he is reborn among goldsmiths, or in the body of the bird called a “hemakâra.”
Materialists who remain attached to their privileged positions until death and who never wish to leave the charms of home, even in dreams, remain prisoners of such illusions. They cannot help but make a thousand plans to make their lives even more comfortable, but suddenly death comes, cruel and merciless. Whether they like it or not, they will be forced to abandon their body and take on another, which they will be compelled to accept. Depending on the deeds they have performed in their present life, they will be forced to take a body from among the 8,400,000 living species.
Envy, jealousy of Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the consequence of such an act is endless rebirth among demonic species and atheistic families. The pure knowledge inherent in every being remains perpetually veiled by illusion for such unbelievers, who can only gradually regress to the darkest recesses of creation.
The world is at war because human beings have distanced themselves from God and have completely forgotten Him.
The world is at war because human beings have distanced themselves from God and have completely forgotten Him. They have removed God from their minds and hearts.
People who distance themselves from God degrade themselves and plunge into the darkness of ignorance of the facts relating to God and existential truth, and are therefore driven by hatred, aggression, violence, and revenge.
The most beautiful act of charity is that which consists of offering knowledge of God as He truly is, the awareness and love of God, to all human beings without exception, so that they may place the Lord in their hearts, receive the true gospel, and become beings of love.