The divisions which result from generalizations and distinctions, such as nationality and individuality, are the result of the imagination of persons who are hardly advanced in the field of knowledge. We can be French today, and have been South American in our previous life, and in the next we may be Asian or we will reincarnate on another planet or even another galaxy, because the earth is not the The only inhabited planet. As a spiritual soul, we are part of the spiritual energy and as such we are not of this material world. We are from the spiritual world and we must return.

Those who rise to human life, what were they in their previous lives .... ?

Through the various stages of evolution, from aquatic species to terrestrial animals, the distinct (individual) spiritual being eventually reaches a human form. The three attributes of material nature exert their influence throughout this process of evolution. Thus, those who rise to the human form under the influence of virtue had a cow body at their last incarnation. Those who come there, impelled by passion, were lions. As for those whom ignorance has led to the human form, they were apes in their past life.

When the people who have reached the Edenic planets see the fruits of their virtuous deeds exhausted, they return to this Earth.

The places of Edenic enjoyment (heavenly) are divided into three groups. The Edenic planets proper, the Edenic places on earth, and those situated in the lower regions. When the people who have reached the Edenic planets see the fruits of their virtuous deeds exhausted, they return to this Earth. Thus they rise to the Edenic planets and then fall back upon the terrestrial planets. This phenomenon, which repeats itself many times, is called brahmanda bhramana. Intelligent beings - in other words, those who have not lost their intelligence - do not engage in this path which elevates and demeans the conditioned souls in a continuous cycle. They adopt the service of devotion offered to the Lord so that they can finally cross the boundaries of this universe and penetrate into the spiritual world. They will then establish themselves on one of the planets known as Vaikunthalokas or, even higher, on Krsnaloka (Goloka Vrndavana). Never can a bhakta allow himself to be caught up in this maneuver of material existence, where sometimes one rises, sometimes one falls back. This is why Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu says:

"Brahma, Sambhu, Surya and Indra are all products of the power of the Sovereign Lord, which is also true of the many other devas whose names are not mentioned here." When the cosmic manifestation is destroyed, these different emanations Of