When the individual soul, distinct from God, that each of us truly is, leaves its gross material body at the end of existence, called “death,” it is placed in a state of sleep by the celestial beings, the Lord's attendants.

After the destruction of the gross material body, the soul leaves it and is immediately reincarnated. It then remains unconscious for approximately nine months in humans, a period it spends in the womb of its new mother and in a specific body, depending on its karma. Our next body is the product of our mental activities. It is the mental conditions at the moment of death that determine the specific body we will be given.

In reality, when the end of life is scheduled, the spirit soul leaves the body and immediately reincarnates in the womb of a new mother, chosen by the celestial agents of Krishna, God, the Supreme Personality, according to its karma.

The soul is immortal, for it is eternal; that is what we are.

The waking state of consciousness manifested through activity is its natural condition of existence. It cannot cease to be active, especially when it learns to turn its desires towards the spiritual service it offers to the Lord. Its life then becomes perfect, and it then reaches the spiritual world to enjoy eternal awakening.

What are the original sources of human perdition?

These six major original sources lead the soul to misguidance, perdition, suffering, material slavery, subjugation, and conditioning of the human being to matter, and the latter keeps it there.

Forgetfulness occurs at the moment of death. The soul, enclosed in its ethereal body, is transported by Lord Krishna's attendants to the womb of a new mother, who will thus give it a new material body. It is the material body that plunges the incarnate spiritual being into forgetfulness of everything: of God, of his previous life, of his true identity, of real existence... This forgetfulness is accentuated by the external energy or material energy of the Lord in His material nature, which influences the incarnate being through its attributes and modes of influence: virtue, passion, and ignorance.

In reality, death is synonymous with forgetfulness.

The second source is the false ego or material ego. The false ego is the force that binds the incarnate being to material existence. This force, which pushes the incarnate being to identify with their body and to seek to dominate matter, is at the origin of the being's conditioning to matter.

The three forms of the false ego are: domination of material nature, identification with one's body, and the hoarding of all material possessions. The primary function of the false ego is to plunge the being into ignorance and foster atheism.