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Question: In the verse Srimad Bhagavatam 1.10.21 explained that the human beings remain asleep within the body of the Lord until there is another creation of the material world and then they arise to take up their unfinished work. The Lord is pavitra paraman, the purest, so when the jīvas enter or merge into the body of Mahā-Viṣṇu, they are with the Lord. Why are the living entities not getting cleansed of material contamination, even though they are with the Lord. Kindly explain why do they still have to continue with the material existence?

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Jayapatākā Swami: You see whatever the desire of the living entity they achieve. Those who want to be with Kṛṣṇa, they go back to the spiritual world. Those who want to be in the material world, they go into Mahā-Viṣṇu. And just like in the stores today there is a kind of a barcode, like that each of the living entities are given a kind of bar code but they decide what they want at the last instance. And thus they take on a new creation. And then they again begin exactly from what they had left off. They start that work again. So because they still have material desires, so they are allowed to try to achieve their material desires. I hope that everybody on this call, listening to this class, will desire to go back to Kṛṣṇa, but the Lord does not force you to go back to the spiritual world, if you don’t want to.
14-August-2021 Sridham Mayapur, India