Let us put an end to self-interested action, to the pleasures of the senses, let us renounce the fruits of our actions, and live according to the teaching of God.

The spiritual being incarnated in the body of a celestial being, its exhausted merits, comes down to earth in a drop of water, and finds there a human body.

The individual being distinct from God can, by a free act, either plunge into the heart of the dark material nature and identify with matter, with the body in which it was incarnated, or on the contrary identify with the spiritual energy, superior, and for this reason it is also referred to as the Lord’s marginal energy.

Depending on whether he leans towards one or the other of these energies, material or spiritual, he acquires a corresponding body, material or spiritual. But his position in this world does not correspond to his true nature. The original nature of the distinct being is to serve the Supreme Lord in a spiritual consciousness, in Krishna consciousness.

But in the material universe, his material consciousness impels him irresistibly to want to dominate matter, as a result of which he must undergo the law of karma, and be reborn indefinitely among the 8,400,000 living species, sometimes as a celestial being, sometimes as a man, sometimes as an animal or plant, etc. while in the spiritual world it retains a unique form.

Of the 8,400,000 life forms that God created, we find 900,000 aquatic species, 2,000,000 plant species, 1,100,000 species of reptiles and worms, 1,000,000 species of birds, 3,000,000 species of mammals, and 400,000 species of humans, the whole grouping together the 8,400,000 varieties of bodies found on various planets in countless galaxies.

This is how the wanderings of the incarnate spiritual being, of the human being, continue, by the effect of innumerable incarnations following the call of the various forms of material desires which it emits, and which resides in its mind.

Man can, by sacrifices, reach the heavenly planets and enjoy the pleasures found there, but his merits exhausted, he will find on earth a human body.

The being, the soul, then descends into a drop of water, then is transferred to a cereal seed, which, eaten by a man, is transferred to the sperm that the latter will release. This sperm will fertilize a woman, who will again give her a human body, to make sacrifices, and the cycle will begin again.

Thus the conditioned being comes and goes endlessly on the material path. Krishna’s devotee avoids sacrificing to heavenly beings. He absorbs himself directly into Krishna consciousness, and thus prepares his return to the Lord.