The innumerable material bodies which the incarnated beings must have in this world originate from the false concepts of “je” and “mine”. The material concept of existence, which, in the conditioned soul, appears in politics, sociology, philanthropy, altruism, etc., is therefore entirely based on this notion of “je” and of “mien”, which arises from a powerful desire for material enjoyment. This identification of being with its body and its place of birth, that is to say the place where it has put on this body, which manifests itself in various material notions, such as socialism, nationalism, family or other attachment has the sole cause of forgetting the true nature of the individual soul. But that being thus conditioned comes into contact with an authentic spiritual master, and all illusion will be swept away.

Logos 115

Immersed in the illusion, the spiritual being distinct from God, that we are, takes on innumerable forms, material bodies which the external energy of the Lord gives him, material nature.

The various bodies that the different spiritual beings borrow are as many costumes as they are assigned by the external and illusory energy of the Lord, in order to satisfy their desires for material enjoyment according to one or the other of the three gunas, the modes of influence of material nature; virtue, passion, ignorance. Indeed, material energy, or external energy, is made up of the three gunas, virtue, passion and ignorance. Even when he acts within material nature, the distinct being enjoys a certain free will by which he can choose to put on one or the other of the material bodies offered to him by external energy.

In truth, there are 900,000 aquatic species, 2,000,000 plant species, 1,100,000 species of reptiles and worms, 1,000,000 species of birds, 3,000,000 species of mammals and 400,000 species human; the whole grouping together the 8,400,000 varieties of bodies found in various planets in countless galaxies. So this is how the wanderings of the distinct being continue, the human being, through the effect of innumerable transmigrations, thus responds to the call of the various forms of material desires that inhabit it.

Logos 116

At the end of time, the Lord himself, in the form of Rudra, the destroyer of the worlds, will destroy the entire creation. The entire creation is the work of God, the