Since everything depends on the will of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, our one and only duty is to surrender ourselves to Him, and to seek his protection.

Incarnate souls who originally belonged to the spiritual world, are sent into the material universe because they have become envious of the Lord.

But in truth, the major reason why God expelled certain souls from his kingdom is because they rejected the service of love and devotion which they were to offer Him, an eternal duty that all souls exercise. They had to fall immediately into the prison represented by this material world and accept a material body.

The degradation of all those who live in the material cosmos, on any planets whatever, is due to their insubordination and their forgetting the relationship uniting them to God. We are all, verily, Krishna's eternal servants and servants. Our duty is therefore to serve Him with love and devotion. Such is the perfection of existence.

It is the desire to dominate material nature, which plunges the spiritual being into it.

It is only because he desires to dominate material nature, that he is immersed in the latter. Such a desire has no place in the spiritual world, which is pure. In the universe of matter, each one struggles hard to find unceasingly new “preys” of pleasure for his body. Let us specify that the body is the product of the senses, which are the instruments placed at the disposal of the embodied spiritual being to satisfy his desires. And the whole, material body and sense-instruments, is offered to the spiritual being embodied by material nature according to his desires and past acts.

The Lord is the first cause and absolute of creation.

Because they lie between the internal and external energies, individual beings distinct from God, whose nature is eternally spiritual, constitute the marginal energy of the Lord.

In fact, they are not made to be conditioned by external energy or material energy, but when a false impression of reigning supreme over material energy inhabits and animates them, it is the latter which places them under its yoke, thus forcing them to undergo the conditioning of the three attributes and modes of influence of material nature: virtue, passion and ignorance. This external energy of the Lord veils the pure knowledge of the distinct beings by which they know they are eternally linked to Him, but this ignorance which constantly covers them is such that it seems to exist from all eternity. So these are the amazing powers of maya, external energy or material energy, which seems to be a manifestation from matter.

By the veil it places on the scientist, material energy prevents him from seeing beyond material causes, while behind the manifestations of matter, the action of adhibhuta forces is exerted, adhyatma and adhidaiva, invisible to the soul conditioned by ignorance.