Professor Suthers: The [Bhagavad] Gita has admitted the doctrine of the transmigration of the soul [reincarnation]. What does your Vaishnava Philosophy say about this?
Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur Jagad Guru Prabhupada:-- The “Gita” is not separate from the Vaishnava Philosophy. The Shrimad Bhagavatam fully reveals the true import of this doctrine, viz. that of changes of births for the soul.
Christianity has disregarded the principle of change of births on the alleged ground that if it is accepted, men will not restrain their sinful propensities, rather they will indulge in vices at their sweet will in their present life, on the expectation that they will be able to make good their sins, guilts, and wrong doing of this life in the course of the following ones.
But the Shrimad Bhagavatam has crowned the principle with its true significance by means of a much fuller scientific and philosophical meaning, by instructing the urgent necessity for ardently t













