precipitate them towards various infernal planets to suffer there more the torments of the material life.

Maya, the illusion energy of God, is the source of forgetting our relationship with Krishna, God. In fact, maya means “which is not”, which has no existence. It is therefore wrong to believe that the living being has no connection with the Supreme Lord. He may not believe in the existence of God, or think that nothing connects them, but these are so many illusions, or maya. In the grip of this false conception of life, human beings mope with endless fears and anxieties. In other words, any conception of life without God is Mayan. This is why we must surrender to God with great devotion and recognize that He is the ultimate goal of existence. As soon as the being forgets the fundamental nature of his relationship with God, he succumbs to the material energy, hence his false ego, his identification with the body, which he takes for himself. His whole conception of the material universe is born from this false conception of the body. Attaching himself to the latter, he also attaches himself to everything he can produce.

To escape from this slavery, he has only to fulfill his duty in relying on the Supreme Lord with intelligence, devotion and a sincere conscience of Krishna.

Logos 4

We are all individual spiritual souls distinct from God, distinct from each other, and distinct from the bodies of matter in which we are embodied.

The Lord said: “By your intrinsic nature, you are a living soul of a purely spiritual essence. The material body cannot be equated with your true identity, any more than the mind, intelligence or false ego. Your true identity is to be the eternal servant of Krishna, the Supreme Lord. Your status is transcendental in nature. The upper Krishna energy is of spiritual essence while the lower external energy is of material essence. Located between these two energies, you therefore belong to the marginal energy of Krishna, which means that you are One with Him while being distinct from Him. Being of a spiritual nature, you are identical to Krishna; but because you are only a tiny fragment of it, you are at the same time different from Him.”

This simultaneous identity and difference has always characterized the relationship that unites people to the Supreme Lord. In truth, all cosmic manifestation is only the energy of the Supreme Lord. The entire creation is made up of various manifestations of its energy. Every living being, as a soul, participates in the spiritual energy of the