Why has the Supreme Lord plunged the spiritual soul into the material universe, who are we really, what is our true spiritual identity, and what is our true origin?

In truth, at the beginning of all things, there existed only God, the Supreme Eternal and He alone, in his personal, primordial, original, infinite and absolute form.

This is why God says, “there is really nothing that exists outside of Me, that is what you must clearly understand.”

God, the Supreme Person is unborn and without beginning. If this is so, it is because He possesses in His divine spiritual essence all the source principles, which give Him absolute power. There is no difference between his totally spiritual body, soul and mind, for they are One. His body, well composed of two parts, the body proper from which emerges spiritual rays that make up a radiance, and this dazzling radiance, make only One.

God’s pure spiritual body has a human form, which he has also given to man. It is written:

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let him rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, over the cattle, over the whole earth, and over all the reptiles that crawl on earth.” (Genesis 1:26)

“God created man in his image, he created him in the image of God, he created man and woman”. (Genesis 1:27)

God does not need anything, because by all his own internal powers, He is sufficient unto Himself. But desiring to increase his personal happiness, he wanted to surround himself with beings who would bring him this joy. So He gave to the rays which make up the radiance of his body, an existence distinct from Him. From that moment, while related to God and distinct from Him, these spiritual rays, because they compose the radiant body of God, are in fact also unborn, beginningless and eternal. These spiritual rays or sparks are also called, spiritual souls, spiritual entities, spiritual beings. Each of us is a spiritual spark, which makes up the radiant body of God.

We are all tiny fragments, tiny particles, integral parts of the Supreme Person, Krishna.

As I said earlier, the body of God, although composed of two parts that are only one, is different from man, because man is in reality a trilogy. It is composed of a body of dense matter, an ethereal body in which the soul is enclosed, and the spiritual soul itself, which is the true identity of the incarnate spiritual being. Each of us is a spiritual soul, not the perishable material body.

God, in his personal, primordial, original, infinite and absolute form, sees his radiance enveloping him completely, which led some “spiritual guides” to say that the Supreme Lord was an impersonal, that is, formless, spiritual Being. This is why this idea has spread throughout the world, preventing people from accessing the true knowledge of God as He really is.