those who do evil in whatever form, it is only so that they will do penance, repent, correct themselves, and end up loving one another.
Thus, a punishment is inflicted for the sole purpose of bringing the person at fault to reason and making him aware of his error, so that he never does it again and that he understands that by undergoing the punishment he erases his sins.
Logos 188
The two forms of forgetting.
The first form of forgetting occurs at the moment of death. The soul being enclosed in its ethereal body is carried by the assistants of Lord Krishna into the womb of a new mother, who will thus give her a new material body. It is the body of matter, which plunges the embodied spiritual being into forgetting everything; of God, of his previous life, of his true identity, of the real existence… This forgetting is accentuated by the external energy or material energy of the Lord in his form of material nature, which influences the being embodied by his attributes and modes of influence; virtue, passion and ignorance. In reality, death is synonymous with oblivion.
Whoever loses all notion of his body ceases to be chained to material existence. As long as we remain aware of our bodily existence, we lead a conditioned existence under the influence of the attributes of material nature. But as soon as we forget about physical existence, then conditioned material life comes to an end. Now, this forgetting becomes possible when we use our senses in the service of the Lord's absolute love. In the conditioned state, the being uses his senses by identifying himself with a given family, a community or a nation; but as soon as he forgets all these circumstantial material designations and realizes his eternal nature as a servant of the Supreme Lord, then he can truly forget all of material existence. This forgetting occurs when one serves the Lord.
The holy being no longer acts with his body for the satisfaction of the senses within the framework of a family, a community, a nation or of humanity; he works only for God, the Supreme Person. Such is the perfect consciousness of God.
The holy being is always bathed in spiritual bliss, so that he does not experience any material suffering. This state of spiritual bliss constitutes eternal happiness. As soon as one frees oneself from the taint of the three influences of material nature, virtue, passion and ignorance, one ceases to have to be reborn and to transmigrate from one form to another in this galaxy.