In the course of the innumerable existences, incarnate spiritual beings have accumulated by their thoughts, words and actions a great mass of prejudices, guilty acts or sins that oblige them, and today suffer the misfortunes and sufferings that result. Also, it is by pain or suffering suffered and felt, that we diminish and erase our faults.

The human being in this world is in constant contact with material energy, and as such must endure the repetitive cycle of birth, sickness, old age and death.

If there are a large number of hospitals and clinics in which the material diseases of the body can be perfectly cured, then there is not a single hospital centre which heals the material disease of the spiritual soul, which each of us really is. The true seat of illness is the heart.

By engaging in the service of the Lord, we free ourselves from all karma, good or bad. We finally understand that all our sufferings are only due to our previous karma. We know well that the condition of the body as well as that of the soul depends on Krishna.

In reality, the devotee takes care of his or her body out of duty, so that he or she can better serve the Lord. Whatever his or her situation, the devotee maintains a spiritual outlook and uses his or her body only for spiritual purposes. This is true medicine, the medicine that puts an end to all diseases.

Each act generates an effect of its own accord, thus strengthening the material chain that keeps its author more and more imprisoned in matter, and suffering as a result. This chain of actions and their consequences can only be broken when one puts oneself at the service of God and acts for Him.

[To learn more about this subject, open the book “Word of Wisdom, the Wisdom of God”, and click on the logos 475]

All those who hold the impersonalist doctrine will have to become a tree in their next life.

The impersonalist is one who refuses to believe that God has a totally spiritual body in human form. For him, God is an Eternal Spiritual Being without form, because only pure energy.

Unlike the impersonalist, the personalist knows that God, the Supreme Spiritual Person, in His personal, primordial, original, infinite and absolute form, has a body whose form is the one He gave to man.

It is written in Genesis 1:26 and 27: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness”. God created man in His own image: in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.