Satsvarupa: Sometimes people say, “I don’t mind if this transmigration if I become a cat or a dog, because if I forget so completely, it doesn’t matter. I won’t even suffer.”

Prabhupada: But it doesn’t matter, but if I say that “I will turn you immediately into a dog,” will you agree to become?

Satsvarupa: No.

Prabhupada: Why? You’ll forget.

Satsvarupa: Fearful.

Prabhupada: If I say that “I can turn you immediately to become a dog…” That is possible, but will you agree to become a dog?

Madhavananda: No.

Prabhupada: Why? You will forget. That is foolishness. “Because I shall forget, therefore I don’t care for it” – this is childish, foolish proposal. If I say, “I will turn you immediately to this grass, and you will stay here for one hundred years,” will you agree to stand like that for hundred years? Hare Krsna. In the Western countries actually there is no philosophy.

(Morning Walk – June 20, 1974, Germany)