Indeed, faults and sufferings follow one another, plunging the conditioned soul into pain life after life. In its present life it suffers the consequences of acts committed in its previous life, and by its present acts prepares itself for new suffering in the future.

“Mature” or “completed” faults may result in chronic illness, trouble with the law, low birth, inadequate education or poor physical appearance.

Our past actions burden us today, and our present actions prepare us for future suffering. But this chain can be broken at a stroke for one who adopts God consciousness and serves Him with love and devotion. This means that loving and devotional service to the Lord is capable of reducing our sins and all defilements to nothing.

Suffering is useful and necessary, because it allows us to know, through the pain we feel, what evil thoughts, words and actions generate, and thus to make a firm resolution never again to do evil in any form to anyone, human, animal or vegetable.

Suffering is useful and necessary, because it allows us to reduce the mass of guilty acts accumulated during all our previous lives, and to erase the sins inherent in these malicious and even criminal acts.

Suffering is useful and necessary because it gives us a clear idea of the pain felt by the person we hurt in our previous life, being indifferent to the cries they made. It also allows us to know “that what we have done will be done to us”.

Suffering is useful and necessary, because it allows us to become aware of our evil deeds, to do penance, to repent, to ask for forgiveness, to turn to God, to respect and definitively apply the divine precepts, laws and commandments.

The human being is in constant contact with material energy in this world, and as such must endure the repetitive cycle of birth, illness, old age and death.

While there are many hospitals and clinics where the material diseases of the body can be perfectly treated and cured, there is not a single hospital that cures the material disease of the spirit soul, which each of us really is. The real seat of disease is the heart.

Diseases of a spiritual nature.

The material diseases of the spiritual soul are those for which karma is the transmitting agent, that is to say, they pass from the body that the soul had in its previous life to the one in which it has been reincarnated.

The material body is in reality the prison of the spirit soul. We have forgotten this, but the foetus in the mother's womb, and then at birth, the being suffers. The body is the source of the suffering of the incarnated spiritual being. As God Himself said, this material world is a universe of suffering. That is why, for thousands of years, He has been asking us to return to His absolute kingdom, where suffering is absent and true happiness is real and permanent.