Logos 18
The creation of the material cosmos.
God, the Supreme Person, is the distant and primordial cause of the creation of the material cosmic manifestation in which we evolve. When He gives a first impulse, it generates many reactions which follow one another, and this is how the whole cosmos is set in motion, just as a mass of iron moves under the action of magnetic forces.
Krishna, God, the Supreme Person imprints the first movement, and by chain reaction the cosmic manifestation manifests. Krishna imprints the first movement, then this force is transmitted in successive phases until the entire cosmic manifestation is manifested, then maintained, this is the initial phase of creation.
Krishna explains it clearly: “Material nature acts under My direction and thus generates all beings, mobile and immobile. Know that all living species proceed from the bosom of material nature, and that I am its father, who gives the seed.”
Logos 19
The material cosmos, which contains innumerable galaxies, is a marvelous creation
The manifested material cosmos is a wonderful creation due to the interaction of the three gunas, the three attributes and modes of influence of material nature; virtue, passion and ignorance, the external energy of the Supreme Lord.
Only one who has transcended the chains of birth and death, or who has regained his eternal identity, that of eternal spiritual soul, no longer undergoes the influence of the energy of illusion, which forces him to accept as the only reality the cosmic material manifestation, a simple distorted reflection of the spiritual reality, because he is aware of his spiritual identity. Only beings of lesser intelligence hold as real this distorted reflection of the spiritual world that is this material cosmos. Those who are influenced by the external energy perceive its manifestation as a concrete reality, while those who have reached a certain level of spiritual realization know that it is illusory. In fact, the reality is elsewhere, in the spiritual world.
Material benefits can sometimes harm a person engaged on the spiritual path, on the path of consciousness of Krishna, God. Deprivation promotes progress in the consciousness of God. Nevertheless, one who is aware of the eternal relationship which unites him with God, the Supreme Person, can use his learning, his beauty and his noble birth for the service of the Lord, for these material attributes then become laudable. In other words, unless the embodied spiritual being is aware of Krishna,