Consciousness, which is the energy of the soul, is spread throughout the body by the blood that circulates in it. Because consciousness is spread through the fleshy envelope by the blood, all pain and dysfunction in the body is felt. Also, when the consciousness leaves the heart, the heart ceases to beat and the person is said to be dead.

See how perfectly the Lord organizes the different elements of the body and keeps them in perfect working order.

Verily, Krishna, God, the Supreme Person rules all of us individually and collectively.

The Lord says to this effect: The Supreme Lord stands in the hearts of all beings and directs the wanderings of all of them, who are each as if on a machine (the material body) consisting of material energy.

Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, resides in the hearts of all beings, celestial beings, human beings, animals and plants in the form of the Supreme Soul, and directs them.

Beings conditioned by matter and illusionary energy are directed in all their actions by the Supreme Soul. They do not have complete independence; no one should think himself independent of God, the Supreme Person, for all beings remain constantly under the control of the Lord. Under the guidance of the Supreme Soul, they get what they deserve, and under His guidance, they are carried by “the machine”, the material body, made up of material energy.

Changing bodies, the individual being distinct from God forgets his previous acts, but the Supreme Soul, who knows the past, present and future of all beings, bears witness to his acts.

That is why we must surrender to Him.

We are all eternal servants of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person.

We have forgotten God, the link that unites us to Him, who we really are, and how to get out of this illusory world where we have to undergo the wheel of time, rebirths or reincarnations and repeated deaths, and in each life experience these four sufferings: birth, illness, old age and death.

We have forgotten God and the service of love and devotion that we must offer Him. That is why we are lost in this world of successive deaths and reincarnations, where suffering is permanent.

In truth, oblivion comes from death. When we die, we have to change our body, and it is this change of body that causes forgetfulness.

It is important that every living being, every incarnated spiritual being, knows his intrinsic nature, that of the Lord, that of material energy, and their interconnection.