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How does the illusory energy of the Lord, also called illusion energy or maya, act and why?
Everything is revealed to those who awaken to true spiritual and absolute knowledge.
Let us not make the mistake of rejecting God, of denying His existence, of rejecting His authority, of envying Him or of considering ourselves as equal or identical to Him, for otherwise we will have to suffer the influence and the wrath of the illusory energy of the Lord.
In truth, rejecting God or denying His existence leads to forgetting His Divine Person, which will immediately bring about the worst possible punishment, for it means being plunged into ignorance of the data relating to God and existential truth, into darkness, blindness, anguish, fear, despair, perdition, suffering and death, with no hope of seeing God.
The Lord says to this effect: The envious and the evil ones, the last of men, I plunge into the ocean of material existence in various forms of demonic life. These, being reborn life after life in the demonic species can never approach Me. Gradually they sink into the most abominable condition.
Those who commit the error of blaspheming the Lord, whether in thought, word or deed, will have to be reborn in a family of unbelievers, demonic miscreants, atheists, where they are likely to forget the service of the Lord. On the other hand, whoever does so will go to hell, as will his ancestors.
The scoundrels, the evil unbelievers blaspheme the Lord because He appears in the guise of an ordinary man, they know nothing of His infinite greatness.
All those who reject God are influenced by the illusory energy of the Lord.
The illusory energy of Krishna is also called the energy of illusion or maya. Maya means “that which is not the illusion”.
Under its influence, the spirit soul distinct from God believes itself to be the master of creation, the possessor and the supreme beneficiary. Identifying itself with material energy, i.e. its body (through which it seeks sense pleasure), mind and material intelligence, it forgets the eternal relationship with God. The soul, conditioned by maya, seeks the pleasures of this world and thus becomes more and more chained to the cycle of death and rebirth, or repetitive reincarnations.