body uses his material senses, which have been activated by the Supreme Person, to try to enjoy sensory objects composed of the three modes of influence of nature.
Since everything depends on the will of God, the Supreme Person, our one and only duty is to surrender ourselves to Him and to seek His divine protection.
Initially, the Absolute, the Supreme Being, manifests itself as the three modes of influence of material nature; virtue, passion and ignorance. The Supreme Being extends his power further, and thus the power to act and the power of consciousness manifest with the false ego, which covers the identity of the conditioned living being. Thus, through the expansion of the multiple forms of the Absolute, the heavenly beings, as the embodiment of knowledge, manifest themselves with the material senses, their objects and the results of material activity, namely happiness and distress. In this way, the manifestation of the material world takes place as a subtle cause and as a visible material effect in the appearance of material objects of dense matter. The Supreme Spiritual Being, who is the cause of all ethereal and dense matter manifestations, is simultaneously transcendent to them, being Absolute.
The eternal spiritual soul [which each of us is] was never born and will never die, nor grow, nor decompose. This spiritual soul is in fact the knower of the youth, middle age and death of the material body. Thus, the soul can be understood to be pure consciousness, existing everywhere at all times and never being destroyed. Just as the vital air in the body, although one, manifests itself as so many people in contact with the different material senses, the one soul seems to assume various material designations in contact with the material body.
The spiritual soul is embodied in many different life species in the material world. Some species are born from eggs, others from embryos, others from seeds of plants and trees, and others from transpiration, in water. But in all species of life the vital air remains unchanging and follows the spiritual soul from one body to another. Likewise, the spiritual soul is eternally the same despite its material condition of life. We currently have practical experience. When we are absorbed into deep sleep without dreaming, the material senses become inactive, and even the mind and false ego have merged into a dormant condition. But although the senses, the mind and the false ego are inactive, one remembers upon awakening that the soul slept peacefully.
When one seriously engages in the devotional service dedicated to the Divine Person, Krishna, in fixing the lotus-like feet of the Lord who dwells in one's heart as the sole purpose of life, we can destroy the countless unclean desires lodged in our heart as a result of our previous fruitful action within three modes of influence of material nature. When the heart is thus purified, one can directly perceive both the Supreme Lord and oneself as transcendent entities. Thus, one becomes perfect in spiritual understanding through direct experience, just as one can experience the sun directly through normal and healthy vision.