The manifestation or force called adhibhuta causes death and rebirth or successive reincarnations with aging and its procession of diseases, the adhyatma force conditions the spiritual soul, and the adhidaiva force governs its existence in matter.

They represent the material manifestations of causes and their effects as well as the feeling of responsibility felt by the conditioned being around action. Such are the manifestations of material conditioning, and to free oneself from it constitutes the highest perfection for human beings.

The material universe is the distorted reflection of the kingdom of God. All the varieties that we find on earth also exist, in much more beautiful and more perfect, in the kingdom of God.

The external energy, which manifests in the form of the illusory energy of the Lord, maya, acts under the authority of God and conditions the embodied souls.

In truth, it is the activities aimed at the satisfaction of the senses and the sole purpose of which is to please the mind and the senses, which are the cause of the chaining to matter. As long as the embodied soul indulges in these self-serving actions, it will not cease to reincarnate from one species to another, and to suffer in each existence.

The actual conditioning of the embodied spiritual being is due to the influence of the illusory external energy, that is to say, it exercises this influence of itself. The Supreme Lord is not in any way involved in this undesirable act. Moreover, he has no desire to see individual beings distinct from his Person thus allowing himself to be played and led astray by his external energy, which is akin to Satan. She herself is very much aware of this fact, but nevertheless accepts the thankless task of keeping the forgetful souls by her influence astray, which is the source of fear. And the Lord does not in any way curb his illusory energy in the accomplishment of this task, for the latter is necessary for the reform of souls incarnated and conditioned by matter and the energy of illusion.

A loving father does not like to see his children punished by others. However, when they show themselves to be rebellious, he does not hesitate to place them under the care of a strict guardian, with the sole aim of putting them back on the right path. But the Almighty Father, in his infinite love, desires at the same time the deliverance of conditioned souls, their liberation from the clutches of illusory energy.

The king throws his rebellious citizens behind bars, but sometimes preferring them free, he goes in person to the prison and implores them to repent, to do penance, so that they can be released.

In the same way, the Supreme Lord, Krishna, descends from his kingdom into that of illusory energy and there personally offers conditioned souls the remedy for all their ills by giving them the Bhagavad-gita or the “shant of the Lord” [Words of Krishna,