true knowledge, and from passion for the senses, greed. Ignorance causes behavioral madness, foolishness and illusion.
Pure spiritual vision is that which allows one to understand that beyond the material universe lies the spiritual world, a true wonder. The material universe is the distorted reflection. The Supreme Lord is so good to all beings, that as a Supreme Soul also called the Holy Spirit, He always accompanies the embodied soul, whatever the circumstances. The Lord remains with them in their hearts as a witness, a guide, a friend, and this, for the sole purpose of helping them return to his eternal kingdom.
He wants them to leave this world of suffering for good.
The human being is, in truth, a spiritual entity, a spiritual soul, and not the body of matter which covers him. The day when all human beings will be aware of God and of this truth, they will understand that they are neither white, nor black, nor yellow, nor red, nor of mixed race, nor of Americans, nor of Europeans, nor of Africans, nor of Caribbean, neither Asians nor Oceanians, but united members of the same divine family, that of God, and that they are not of this material world.
Then blasphemy, hatred, racism, discrimination, inhumanism, indifference, lust, envy and pride will disappear, and there will appear love, harmony and peace. It is the responsibility of all of us, and God recommends it to us, to spread this truth throughout the world.
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Being spiritual souls, bodily conceptions do not concern us.
Corpulence, thinness, physical and mental suffering, thirst, hunger, fear, disagreement, desire for material enjoyment, old age, sleep, attachment to material goods, anger, sorrow, delusion and identification with the body are only so many transformations of the material envelope which covers the spiritual soul. Anyone caught up in a material conception of existence, centered on the body, is affected by these phenomena, but the soul is in no way affected by this bodily conception. So she is neither fat, nor skinny, or anything of all that.
The spiritually evolved being has no connection with the body nor with the acts of this one and their consequences. When one comes to understand that one's own existence is different from that of the body, and therefore one is neither fat nor thin, one attains the highest level of spiritual realization. On the contrary, he who is unaware of his real identity remains chained to the material universe because of his bodily conception of existence. At present, all of humanity is living with this bodily consciousness. Spiritual intelligence makes it possible to understand this truth and at the same time raise society to the level of perfection.