The Pure Spiritual Science
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To stop this process, it is enough to surrender to God, to do his divine will, and to serve him with love and devotion. Those who do so live in peace, in the protection of God, and know an ineffable happiness.

Our past actions overwhelm us today, and our present acts prepare us for future suffering. So here is a succession of faults and sufferings, plunging life after life the incarnated soul conditioned by matter in pain. She suffers in this life the consequences of the acts committed in her previous life, and prepares, by her present acts, new sufferings in the future. "Mature" or "accomplished" faults, which occur now, may result in a chronic illness, trouble with the law, low birth, inadequate education, or poor physical appearance. The cause of all diseases is of spiritual origin. This cause is the forgetting of our relationship of love with Krishna, God, the Supreme Person. The soul who loses contact with God forgets his own spiritual identity and indulges in innumerable material activities that entangle him in a network of karma, reactions actions. This karma causes him suffering and instead of turning to God to ease his pain, the soul seeks material solutions that unfortunately lead to other karmic reactions, so other sufferings.

Only the service of love and devotion offered to God can put an end to suffering, to karma, purify the being, and allow him to approach the Supreme Person.

Krishna, God, the Supreme Personality of Godhead says: "It is the desires, the thoughts that, at the moment of death, determine what your next life will be".

As a spiritual soul we are always immortal because of our intrinsic nature, but we change our bodies. This process is creative in the sense that we create our own body, or our next body, according to our desire. If we create in ourselves the mentality of a dog, we will get a dog body in our next life. If we are bitten by surfing, we will create a mentality of loving beings living in the water. Also, if we think about it at the hour of death, we will get an aquatic body in our next life. Naturally, at the time of death, if we think of something particular, nature will give us a body accordingly through specific parents, human or animal. It is an irrepressible process.

No being, whether on Earth or among celestial beings on the higher planetary systems, is free from the influence of the three gunas from Material Nature. The soul acquires a particular body according to its status as to the three modes of influence of material nature, virtue, passion and ignorance.

If her appetite is insatiable and she eats indiscriminately, the soul will put on the body of a pig. If she wants to kill and feed on flesh and blood, she will take the body of a tiger. But she wants to eat food offered to God and she will get the body of a

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