Those who are called “father”and “mother”have nothing to do with being alive. As a result of his own choice and karma, the individual and distinct from God receives different bodies through so-called fathers and mothers.

The divisions that result from generalizations and distinctions, such as nationality and individuality, are the product of the imagination of people who have made little progress in the field of knowledge. There are actually two kinds of energy, one material and the other spiritual. Both exist forever, for they are emanations of eternal truth, the Supreme Lord. Given that the individual soul, the distinct being, has felt since time immemorial the desire to act in forgetting its original identity, it accepts different situations within material bodies and we attribute to it various denominations corresponding to the innumerable nationalities, communities, social groups, species, etc.

The living being has many things in this world, a material body, children, a woman and so on. He may believe himself to be protected in this way, but all these possessions are in fact of no help to him: he is forced to abandon his present situation and to accept another. His new condition may not be favorable to him, but even if not, he must give it up and accept another body again. Thus continue the trials to which his material existence subjects him. A sensible man should be fully aware that these things can never make him happy. One must realize one's own spiritual identity and serve eternally God, the Supreme Person, with devotion. In reality, what we see has no permanent existence, sometimes we can see it and sometimes not. Only our past actions are the source of all these imaginative chimeras, and it is because of them that we engage in other activities. All that is material is a product of the imagination, because these creations are sometimes visible and sometimes not. At night, when we dream of tigers and snakes, these animals are not really present, but we still react to what we see in our dreams. Likewise, every material thing is like a dream because in fact it has no permanent existence. Likewise, the material world is a creation of our imagination. We came to this world in order to take advantage of the resources it offers us, and because our minds are occupied by material things, our imagination makes us discover many objects of enjoyment. This is the reason why we receive various bodies. According to the ideas suggested by our mind, we work in various ways, animated by various desires, and the benefits that we desire are granted to us by material nature on the order of God, the Supreme Person. We are thus more and more chained to material and illusory conceptions. This is the reason for our suffering here below. One activity breeds another, and all result from ideas from our mind.