Logos 69
The origin of all the sufferings of the embodied soul is indeed the body of matter which covers it, subject to birth and death, sickness and old age.
Outside this body of matter, the incarnated spiritual being is eternal, immortal and unborn. This is the reality of life that the madman forgets, whose problems and solutions he ignores. He gets stuck in precarious family and national interests, without perceiving the furtive shift of eternal time which brings him ever closer to the end of an existence, and sees no solution to the serious problem of this death, and repeated rebirths, disease and aging. This is what is called illusion. However, this illusion has no hold on the soul awakened by devotion to the service of the Lord. Because it is eternal, the individual being distinct from God, incarnated, finds happiness only in the eternal kingdom of the Supreme Lord, from which no one returns anymore to this world of birth, disease, aging and dead.
This is why any comfort or material pleasure, offering no assurance of eternity, can only be illusory for the immortal soul. He deserves to be called a scholar, one who grasps the depth of this truth. He will be able to sacrifice all the pleasures of this world to achieve the one desirable goal, absolute happiness, which can only be found in the kingdom of God.
Logos 70
Krishna, God, the Supreme Person says:
“The soul knows neither birth nor death. Alive, it will never cease to be. Unborn, immortal, original, eternal, it never had a beginning, and never had an end. It does not die with the body.”
The time has come to tell humans that they are not their bodies, but the spiritual soul therein. It’s the soul that gives life to the body. Remove the soul from the body, and the latter collapses inert, dead. It’s the body that dies, falls to dust and is plunged into oblivion and total nothingness.
When the body dies, the soul is reincarnated, and depending on its acts accomplished in its ending life, begins a new existence elsewhere on earth or on another planet in our galaxy or even another galaxy, and will have a happy life or not, easy or not. The purpose of the soul is to find God and renew the broken bond of love with him, in