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.

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.