the opposite is false. They believe that consciousness comes from matter, but in reality it has always existed. However, when it is covered or denatured by ignorance, it becomes a kind of unconsciousness. The word "material" therefore translates the forgetfulness of God, and "spiritual" means "fully conscious of God".

Try to understand this point: the darkness comes from the light because it is in the absence of it that all beings are plunged into darkness. The Krishna consciousness allows one to escape the ephemeral that is the material universe and to establish oneself at the permanent level of the spiritual nature. This must be the goal of every man, because as true as no one has a cloudy day, no one really wants to live in this ephemeral world.

Krishna teaches: "Of all the worlds, spiritual and material, I am the source; from me everything emanates."

Krishna is the creator of all things, good or bad. In fact, these notions of "good" and "bad" are only material concepts, because God represents the absolute good, and this quality also marks all its creation. What may seem bad to you is good from the divine point of view. So it is impossible to fully understand God, because the notions of good and bad can not be applied to Him. In truth, darkness results only from the absence of light; they can not of themselves generate light. Darkness is subordinated to light. In other words, light excludes darkness, and when it weakens everything becomes obscure. Likewise, when our spiritual consciousness, or our Krishna consciousness, falls asleep, it becomes tinged with materiality.

Sleep represents an interruption of the waking state, brought about by fatigue, and, according to the same idea, the awakening does not correspond to the beginning of a new existence that would be born of sleep. We already existed, even when we slept, and in the morning, "life" only continues. This point needs to be understood: although the living being is eternal, in the mind of a newly born child, the day it was born by its mother marks the beginning of its existence. But in reality, he was simply unconscious in his mother's womb, where his new material body was being formed, and at birth his consciousness awakened. At the moment of death, he sinks into sleep again.

God specifies on this subject: "Without end, day after day, reborn the day, and each time, myriads of beings are brought back to existence. Without end, night after night, night falls, and with it, the beings, in the annihilation, without being able to do anything about it."