the possibility of being happy in this material world, but this falls under maya, the illusion. In other words, this is a dream that can never come true. So every being is deluded by the external energy of the Supreme Lord. This energy of illusion is undoubtedly very powerful, but it remains totally under the dominion of God, the Transcendent Person, the Transcendent Lord, Krishna.
Therefore, He not only directs the conditioned souls through of its external energy, but He also governs the external energy itself. The powerful material energy directs each being to such an extent that it is very difficult to escape its grip. This energy belongs to God, and acts under his direction, under his authority. Also, the living beings whom it subjects to its control forget God, the Supreme Person.
However, who abandons himself to Krishna, God, the Supreme and Sovereign Person, and serves him with love and devotion, by grace Lord, easily overcomes it. It then releases its hold.
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Spiritual education is the basis of the science of God, of the teaching of the Lord, and it allows to understand that the spiritual soul is different and distinct from the body material in which it resides.
The Lord said: “At the moment of death, the soul takes on a new body as naturally as it passed in the previous one, from childhood to youth, then to old age. This change does not disturb the sober being”.
Unfortunately, this spiritual education is totally absent from current civilization. No one knows his real interest, which is that of the spiritual soul and not of the material body. True education is spiritual.
To work intensely under the influence of a bodily conception of existence, without spiritual education, is to live like an animal. People spend so much energy just for bodily conveniences, without being educated about the best interests of the spiritual soul. They thus live in a dangerous civilization, because the spiritual soul must indeed be reincarnated, thus passing from one body to another.
Without spiritual education, human beings are kept in ignorance and do not know what will happen to them after the death of their body. They work blindly, and blind leaders run them. The man deprived of reason does not know that he remains totally under the slavery of material nature and that the latter will impose on him after death a particular kind of carnal envelope, which he will have to accept. He does not know that although he may be in this current human body, someone very important for example, he risks being reborn in the body of an animal or a tree for having acted