These two philosophies lead men to perdition.

Atheist philosophy causes considerable harm to humanity, making men believe that God does not exist and that they can at leisure plunge into the pleasure of the senses and materialism. They are ignorant of the law of karma, of the law of action-reaction, of the law of cause and effect and of the consequences that result from it, of which reincarnation, by the bodily signs and the sufferings that follow is the proof.

In the same vein, the philosophy of impersonalism or nihilism, which is widespread on earth, does as much damage, because it wrongly claims that God is an Impersonal Being, without form, only pure energy. For those who spread it, God is not a person. They also ignore, that man is in reality a spiritual soul residing in a body of matter, and not the fleshly envelope to which they wrongly identify, hence the illusion in which they are immersed. They rush straight towards darkness, illusion, and ignore it.

These two philosophies keep man in ignorance, force him to follow a dead-end path, and lead him to renewable, even perpetual suffering. This is why many people want to know why they are suffering so much.

The energy of illusion is at the origin of the forgetting that we have of everything.

The existence conditioned by the material nature and the energy of illusion in which we are immersed in this material world has its origin in forgetting the relationship that united us to Krishna, God, the Supreme Person.

Oblivious of its spiritual nature, the incarnate soul undergoes all kinds of suffering within matter. Conditioned by the material nature and the energy of illusion, she engages in activities that earn her to clothe various kinds of bodies over the course of her successive incarnations.

In the material universe, incarnate souls are thus entitled to various punishments and rewards. Their meritorious actions can elevate them to the higher, heavenly, heavenly planets, where they can join the ranks of the many celestial beings, while their reprehensible acts can instead precipitate them to the various infernal planets, in Hell, to suffer further the torments of material life.

The material energy of God, better known by its aspect of material nature, is much less so by its aspect of illusion energy. It is the latter, called maya which means «unreality, which does not exist», which is at the origin of the forgetfulness of the relationship that the incarnate soul had with Krishna, God, the Supreme Person.

All incarnate souls who deviate from the directives of God, who do not live according to His divine teaching, and who are attracted by the interested acts, undergo the influence of maya, which plunges them into the oblivion of God, of their true spiritual identity, spiritual knowledge, and absolute truth. As soon as the incarnate being forgets the fundamental nature that connects him to God, he succumbs to material energy. Hence his identification with his body, which he takes for the self, and therefore his bodily conception of existence.

Everything he undertakes from then on is doomed to failure, and certainly leads him to perdition.