on another body, determined by the acts of its past existence and their consequences. This body change takes place just like a man walks down the street; he takes a step, then, assured that his foot rests on the firm ground, raises the other foot. Thus, the bodies change, one after the other, and the transmigrant soul always remains the same.
The spiritual entity (the soul) changes body as soon as the agents of the master of death have decided on its next lethal envelope. As long as the spiritual entity remains conditioned by the material world, it must take on bodies of matter, one after the other. The body that he will occupy in his next existence is given to him according to the laws of nature, according to his acts in this life and the consequences of which he will have to undergo in his next life. From one life to the next, bodies change and do not necessarily have the same shape. When you get a new body, you forget everything from the previous one, that's what death is. The material bodies that we put on are in fact the product of our mental activities, and we cannot, now, remember our past bodies.
This is why we must never harm anyone, human, animal and vegetable.
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The holy being asks to enter the kingdom of God once he has given up his vital breath and left his material body. Before his body is reduced to ashes, he asks the Lord to remember the virtuous acts and sacrifices he made during his existence. He recites this prayer at the time of death, in full awareness of his past actions and the goal to be achieved.
At this moment, the one who has not completely abandoned the material life must necessarily review the guilty actions of his existence, and death surprising him with a mind full of these thoughts, he will be forced to take back a body in this world. The science of God specifies that the mind takes with it the tendencies of the being who is going to die, so that the state of mind at the very moment of death determines the conditions in which one will be reborn. Unlike the animal, whose mental faculties are small, the dying man remembers, as in a dream, all that he has done during his life; these memories awaken in him innumerable material desires which prevent him from regaining his original spiritual form and thus returning to his first home, the spiritual world.