Attachment to religious customs, to rites, without knowing God, the Supreme Person, nor his devotees, which are the very reason for the sacred character of these practices.

In truth, it is very rare to get a human body. The soul only accesses it after having passed through millions of lower body species, plants and animals.

Now, only the human form allows the intelligent being to know the laws of karma, law of action-reaction, law cause and effect, and thus to free oneself from the cycle of repeated reincarnation. The human body is the only way to escape the sufferings of material existence. The person who misuses his human form and is unaware of his spiritual self is hardly better than an animal.

These are activities aimed at satisfying the senses and whose sole purpose is to please to the mind and to the senses, which are the cause of the bonding of the soul to matter. As long as the soul indulges in these self-serving actions, it will not cease to transmigrate, to reincarnate from one species to another.

Avatar Rsabhadeva warns us in these terms:

“When someone considers the satisfaction of the senses to be the goal of his life, he engages in material life going mad and indulges in all kinds of sinful activities. He does not know that it is because of his past misdeeds that he has already received a material body, which, despite its transitory nature, is at the origin of his suffering. In truth, the distinct being (that each of us is) should never have put on this carnal envelope, but it was attributed to him for the satisfaction of his senses.

Also, I do not believe it is appropriate for an intelligent man to become entangled again in material activities which would force him perpetually to put on bodies, life after life. As long as the living being does not inquire about the spiritual values of existence, he must know the defeat and the evils resulting from ignorance. Whether it is virtue or sin, karma bears its fruits, and if a person is involved in some form of karma or another, their mind is characterized as tinged with the desire to enjoy the fruits of action. As long as the mind remains unclean, the consciousness remains obscured, and as long as one follows the path of self-interested action, one has to put on a material body. When the living being is under the influence of ignorance, he cannot know the nature of the soul distinct from the Supreme Soul, his mind then comes under the yoke of self-interested action. Consequently, as long as he does not have love for God, he will certainly not be exempt from putting on material bodies”.

Thanks to his sublime teaching, the Lord gives us the choice, that of return to the spiritual world where to continue to remain in this material universe where suffering reigns, by reincarnating ourselves, life after life, in a body of dense matter of which we will ignore in advance the material form, the place, the planet and the galaxy of our next election.