When a being forgets his natural position as a spiritual soul and seeks happiness outside his being, he develops two broad attitudes: first, he devotes himself for a long time to self-interested action, in order to derive some personal benefit or seeks to satisfy his senses; then, after exhausting himself in vain and frustrated by this kind of pursuit, which does not satisfy him, he takes the path of philosophical speculation, and comes to believe himself equal to God. This erroneous feeling of being one with God is the final trap of material energy, which keeps the incarnate being imprisoned in the chains of forgetfulness, and places him entirely under the influence of the false ego.

The best way to free oneself from the grip of the false ego is to abandon one's speculative habits with regard to God, to approach an authentic spiritual master, a true servant of the Lord, who will reveal the whole truth.

Three gates open to hell: lust, anger, and greed. Let every sane person close them, for they lead the soul to its destruction. These are the origins of demonic life.

Man seeks to satisfy his lust; if he fails to do so, then anger and greed arise. Therefore, the sane person who does not want to fall into demonic species must try to rid himself of these three enemies capable of “killing” and suffocating the soul, to the point of depriving it of any chance of freeing itself from the traps of material existence.

Sexual life is the root of material slavery, for it forces the soul to reincarnate and prevents its entry into the spiritual world. This is why the Lord advises us to abstain, especially if we wish to put an end to the cycle of reincarnation and enter His eternal kingdom.

Ignorance. Ignorance is the absence of information about God as He really is, the lack of knowledge of our true spiritual identity, and the lack of understanding of existential and absolute truth.

Ignorance prevents man from acting correctly. It is also the cause of human error, blindness, perdition, violence, aggression, criminality, and atheism. The true culprit behind all this is ignorance.

The mind is the cause of man's imprisonment and enslavement in matter. The mind is the origin of lust, anger, pride, greed, sorrow, delusion, and fear.

The mind can be the best friend of the conditioned soul, as it can be its worst enemy. Man must use them to elevate himself, not to degrade himself.

In material existence, everyone is a slave to the mind and the senses; in fact, it is the mind that gives us a false conception of ourselves, that instills in us the desire to dominate material nature, and that is the cause of the soul's imprisonment in the material universe.