that is, God-consciousness, which is to desire everything for Him, that lust, along with anger, will be spiritualized. Therefore, lust and anger, when used in the service of God, from enemies turn into friends.

The sexual act is the source of the imprisonment of the soul in the material body.

The highest benefit that can be conferred on the human being is that which consists in instructing him in such a way that he detaches himself from the sexual life, because it is this which perpetuates, after life, existence conditioned in matter.

We must consider degraded civilization which does not advocate any sexual restriction, because it thus creates a climate in which it will be impossible for the soul to escape the jail that is the material body.

Birth, sickness, old age and death are characteristic of the dense material body, and these four sufferings are opposed to the very nature of the spiritual soul. But as long as the attraction for the pleasure of the senses is nourished, the individual soul, distinct from God, is compelled to perpetuate the cycle of death and successive rebirth, to reincarnate on behalf of the material body, which is only a simple garment subject to the laws of usury.

These are the causes of the chaining to matter.

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

In truth, God does not want living beings, embodied souls suffer. We sometimes wonder why the Supreme Lord created this material universe, where living beings, humans, animals and plants, who are held captive there must experience so much suffering.

In truth, God, the Sovereign Person, does not desire not to create this material universe simply or for the sole purpose of inflicting suffering on conditioned beings. He creates it only because living beings, embodied souls want to know the pleasures that this material world can offer them.

The reasons for the imprisonment of the soul in matter.

The Lord says: “If the soul is thus imprisoned, it is because it nourishes an erroneous conception of its identity, and takes itself for the supreme beneficiary. It is this false ego in the living being which forces it to know the imprisonment within the material existence.”

Lust, anger and greed are also the causes of the imprisonment of the spiritual soul embodied and conditioned in the material universe. We must reject them.