known as the Vaikuntha planets. Lord Krishna lives in the highest of these planets, Goloka Vrindavan.
Everyone should understand that we are constantly in the process of transmigration from one body to another. The body dies every moment and the soul passes from one body to another continuously. This is a medically established fact. Blood cells are constantly changing and are replaced by other blood cells take their place. The old order changeth giving way to a new order. It is a perpetual motion. Thus the soul passes the baby's body to the body of the child and the child's body to that of the boy. Then she transmigrates the boy's body to that of the teenager, then at the young man. In this way, when the end is near and that the body no longer properly perform its functions, the soul must be reborn in another material body after leaving the old.
The body changes, but the soul is always there. We all remember the body of our childhood, our old body. That body no longer exists, but I still exist and have existed in the past. So, I must also exist in the future despite the body change. All this is explained in detail in the Bhagavad Gita, and it is our duty to use all that knowledge.
Fifth question: "To reach Krishna, should we cross the vicissitudes of material life or is it possible to engage directly in the spiritual life?" We can reach Krishna in less than a second as long as we accept our condition of eternal servants of Krishna. Although I now find myself in this body of material, I can immediately stop its hardware functions simply by developing my Krishna Consciousness, which is to accept that I am the eternal servant of Krishna.
Unfortunately, materialists and spiritualists believe, to varying degrees, they are not the servants of Krishna. For this reason, the Bhagavad Gita states that after many births in different bodies subject to the various influences of life, when be becomes wise he surrenders to Krishna. He understands that Vasudeva, Lord Krishna is the cause of all causes. But it is very difficult to find such a great soul who accepts Krishna as the Supreme Master.
To our delight, by the grace of Lord Chaitanya, it becomes very easy to revive our Krsna consciousness through the chanting of Hare Krishna Mantra. This is why I advise you to sing the sublime mantra:
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.