And the whole, material body and “sense-instruments,” is offered to the incarnate spiritual being by material nature according to his desires and past actions.
Is ceasing to dominate material nature beneficial to the incarnate being?
Yes. Let us now stop dominating material nature if we no longer wish to be perpetually reincarnated.
Material nature is actually the external energy of Krishna, God, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, also called material energy. The Lord's material energy is better known in its material nature aspect. It acts under the authority of Godhead.
In truth, it is only because of its desire to dominate material nature that the spirit soul has been immersed in it. Indeed, only its desire to dominate material nature places it in undesirable conditions.
Material nature is the original cause of all material acts and their consequences, so let us not make the mistake of attributing them to humankind. The individual and distinct spiritual being of God incarnated in a specific material body, which each of us actually is, is the cause of the various pleasures and sufferings he experiences in this world.
Material nature is the source of the many varieties of material bodies and the senses. There are 8,400,000 forms of life, all created by material nature, all born from the desire of the incarnate spiritual soul to enjoy this or that form of pleasure, in this or that type of gross material body. Situated in different bodies, it will experience joys and sorrows, but all will be due only to these material bodies, and not to itself per se.
In its original state, the spiritual being need not fear losing its happiness, for it is at the same time its natural condition, bliss being an integral part of its being.
It is only through a desire to dominate material nature that he is immersed in it. Such a desire has no place in the spiritual world, which is pure.
In the universe of dense matter, everyone struggles to constantly find new “prey” of pleasure for their body. Let us know that the material body is the product of the senses, which are the instruments placed at the disposal of the incarnate spiritual being to satisfy his desires. The “body and sense-instruments” complex is offered to the incarnate spiritual being by material nature, according to the latter's desires and past actions.
Thus, he will be blessed or damned by material nature, in various conditions of “habitats or material bodies,” according to his desires and actions. He is therefore solely responsible for the joys and sorrows that befall him.
Once placed in a particular body, he falls under the yoke of material nature, because the material body acts according to the laws specific to matter, which the being itself has no power to change, it cannot change anything.