compassion towards all spirit beings embodied in human, animal and plant bodies. Whether they are men, animals, trees or various plants, all beings are children of God.
The Lord said: “Understand that all species of life proceed from the womb of material nature, and that I am its father, who gives the seed.”
The different forms of these living beings are only the garment which covers them. Each being is in fact a spiritual soul, a part of God. It is not therefore a question of being concerned for the good of a single category of beings.
It is written: “The humble sage, enlightened by pure knowledge, sees being with equal eyes. noble and learned saint, the cow, the elephant, or the dog and the outcast.”
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When the individual spiritual soul transmigrates, reincarnates, from one body of matter to another, the Supreme Soul accompanies it.
In truth, the embodied spiritual soul is found in the depths of the heart of the body of matter in which it resides for a time, the duration of which only God knows. The Supreme Soul and the individual soul live in the same body. The Supreme Soul is called a friend, because God, the Sovereign Person, shows so much benevolence to the individual soul that He accompanies it when it transmigrates from one body to another. Moreover, the Lord, through the medium of material energy, his agent, creates for him a new body according to his desires and his karma. The heart plays a mechanical role in the body. As God explains by this word:
“The Lord stands in the hearts of all beings, and directs their wanderings to all, who are each as on a machine made of material energy.”
The conductor of the machine, that is, of the body, is the individual soul, which is also its master and owner, but the supreme owner is God, the Sovereign Person. A person's body is created through the material energy of God, through specific parents, human or animal, and depending on that person's activities during this lifetime, another vehicle will be created for them. through specific parents, always under the guidance of the material energy which acts under the authority of Krishna, God. When the time comes, our next body is immediately determined, and the individual soul as well as the Supreme Soul are transported into this new “machine”.
This is how transmigration takes place. During the transfer from one body to another, the soul is carried away by the servants of Yamaraja, the master of death and judge of sinners, who first make it go through some type of hellish life so as to accustom her to the condition in which she will have to live in her next body.