The Lord adds: When an individual being, believing himself to be different from Me forgets his spiritual identity, according to which he is qualitatively One with Me, both in eternity and in knowledge and bliss, then his conditioned material existence begins. In other words, instead of identifying his interests with Mine, he begins to be interested in the extensions of his body, such as his wife, children and material possessions. Thus, through the effect of his actions, one birth is followed by another, and one death by another.

All those who are in our material galaxy came for one reason:

They wanted to experience the same pleasure as Krishna, God, the Supreme Person. Thus they were sent to this material world to be conditioned in various degrees by the material nature.

Do not listen to the demonic miscreants who claim that the individual spiritual being that each of us is, is equal to God, the Supreme Person, for therein lies the cause of existence conditioned by material nature. As soon as an individual spiritual being who is distinct from God forgets his own position and seeks to become One with the Absolute (God), his conditioned existence begins.

It is indeed the conception that the Supreme Lord and the God-distinct spiritual being are equal not only qualitatively but also quantitatively that gives rise to conditioned existence. Anyone who forgets the difference between the Supreme Lord and the individual being is subject to the conditions of the material world, which implies that he will have to give up one material body to accept another, and die to die again.

The world is at war because human beings have drifted away from God and have totally forgotten Him.

They have suppressed God from their minds and hearts. People who have distanced themselves from God degrade themselves and plunge into the darkness of ignorance of the facts about God and existential truth, and are therefore driven by hatred, aggression, violence and revenge.

As long as the incarnate spiritual being remains distant from God, breaks the link with the Supreme Lord and does not want to obey Him, seeking only the pleasure of his senses by immersing himself in unbridled materialism, he will remain ignorant of God, of His true existence and of his true identity. He is then said to be immersed in nothingness. He will know only death, even if he lives, because the change of material body plunges the incarnated spiritual being into nothingness, and nothingness is death. In truth, death concerns only the material body and not the spiritual being or the spiritual soul, for the spiritual body remains at all times.