the same time raise society to the level of perfection. One who ceases to be affected by the bodily conception of existence in its various aspects can rise to the service of devotion offered to the Lord. The more we free ourselves from all bodily conception, the more firmly we establish ourselves in the service of devotion and the more we become happy and peaceful. To be free from all bodily conception of existence lives separate from the body, even though it lives in this material world.

The way of satisfying the senses is paved with insurmountable difficulties.

The incarnated spiritual being wanders through the paths of the material universe, very difficult for him to cross, and he must be born and die without end. Subjugated by this world under the influence of the three attributes of material nature; virtue, passion, ignorance, there is only one thing in view: the three kinds of action fruits, good, bad and mixed. He thus attaches himself to pious acts, to the pursuit of riches, to the satisfaction of the senses and to the monist theory of liberation which consists in merging into the Absolute. He struggles day and night like a merchant who goes to the forest to exploit the riches which he then sells for a profit. However, he cannot really find happiness in this material world.

It is very easy to understand that the way of satisfaction of the senses is paved with insurmountable difficulties. However, the one who is not aware of it falls into the cycle of death and rebirth and must successively take on many different bodies, human, animal, vegetable, material existence plunges him thus into suffering. Perhaps a person now believes that he is enjoying life as an American, Indian, English or German, but in his next life he will have to put on a body belonging to one of the eight million four hundred thousand (8,400,000) cash. She must immediately accept this new body according to her karma; she will be forced to enter it, and there will be no point in protesting it. These are the uncompromising laws of nature. Because it ignores its eternal, blissful nature, the distinct soul becomes attached to material acts under the spell of maya, the energy of illusion. Although she can never experience happiness in this world, she continues to painstakingly labor to that end. This is what is called maya, the illusion.

It is now, in our present life, that we must prepare for our next existence.

The intelligent man prepares for it and seeks to obtain in his next life the best possible body, that is to say a spiritual body, as those who return to the kingdom of