The Lord descends from His kingdom, the highest of the planets of the spiritual world, in order to help His heavenly assistants who rule the material universe when the offenses of demonic beings become too grave to extend their jealousy of the Person of the Lord To that of His devotees.

Incarnate and conditioned souls have come into contact with material energy on their own, driven by a violent desire to dominate the various resources and to taste the illusory feeling of being masters of all that surrounds them. Everyone thus seeks to become God, and all these cheap gods are ardently opposed to one another. Such are those who are generally called demonic beings. When they become too numerous, this world takes the form of hell for the devotees of the Lord. The mass of men naturally devoted to the Lord, and with them the pure servants, the pure servants of God, and the inhabitants of the higher planets, then pray to the Lord to help them.

Praying their prayers, the Lord descends personally from his kingdom or despatches one of His devotees so that human society can be relieved of its fallen condition.

They descend on different planets of this universe on the order of the Lord, to fulfill the role of messiahs.

The Earth and its human inhabitants are at the beginning of the intermediate worlds, while Brahma and his peers live on the higher planets, the highest of which is Satyaloka. The inhabitants of this latter master perfectly spiritual wisdom, so that for them, the mystical cloud of material energy dissipates. For this reason they are called the celestial beings personified. Fully awakened to material and spiritual knowledge, they do not pursue any personal interest, whether in the material or spiritual worlds. They can practically be called holy beings without desire, for they have nothing to pursue in the material universe, and they find in themselves their plenitude in the spiritual world. Why, then, do they come here?

The answer is that they descend to different planets of this universe on the order of the Supreme Lord, to fulfill the role of messiahs, and to liberate fallen souls. On earth they appear in different places, and in different circumstances, under different climates, do the good of men. But apart from their mission, to wreck the conditioned souls who languish in the material universe and thus undergo the illusory influence of material energy, they have nothing to do in this world.

What is a liberated soul?

The liberation of conditioned souls, trapped in coarse and subtle envelopes formed by the material body. Once free from all material stain, the soul, abandoning its