giving up his daily duties and occupations, but rather accompanying them with the constant remembrance of his Person, through the chanting of the holy names of God. This song will cleanse us of all material defilement and absorb the mind and intelligence in God, allowing, without a shadow of a doubt, our return to the supreme abode, the eternal kingdom.

The song of the Holy Names of the Lord, Sanskrit words which mean: “O Lord, O Source of all happiness, please, make me your beloved servant”.

haré krishna, haré krishna, krishna krishna, haré haré / haré rama, haré rama, rama rama, haré haré.

Logos 262

It is the presence of the soul that causes the growth and various transformations of the body.

After the body is destroyed, the soul is not destroyed, but continues to live. The soul knows neither birth nor death. Alive, it will never cease to be. Unborn, immortal, original, eternal, it never had a beginning and never had an end. It does not die with the body.

Death only represents the destruction of the gross, material body. We all know from experience that when we dream at night, we leave our room carried away by the ethereal body made up of mind, intelligence and false ego. Although our coarse “coarse” body remains lying on the bed. The self, the soul, thus constantly passes from the material body to the ethereal body. We dream with the ethereal body, and out of the dream state, we return to the material body. And it is this passage of the soul carried by the ethereal body from one material body to another which is called death.

The ethereal body, made up of mind, intelligence and material ego, takes us from one body to another, according to our thoughts at the moment of death. The soul will have to take on a new body of matter corresponding to these thoughts, these desires.