punishment is comparable to that of a father who punishes his son. If he punishes those who do evil in any form, it is only so that they do penance, repent, correct themselves and end up loving each other.

Thus, a punishment is inflicted for the sole purpose of bringing the offending being to reason and making him aware of his error, so that he never begins again and that he understands that by undergoing the punishment he erases his sins.

Logos 188

The two forms of forgetting.

The first form of forgetting occurs at the time of death. The soul being locked in its ethereal body is transported by the assistants of Lord Krishna in the breast of a new mother, who will thus give him a new material body. It is the body of matter, which plunges the incarnated spiritual being into the oblivion of everything; of God, of his previous life, of his true identity, of real existence... This forgetfulness is accentuated by the external energy or material energy of the Lord in its form of material nature, which influences the being embodied by his attributes and modes of influence; virtue, passion and ignorance. In reality, death is synonymous with forgetting.

Whoever loses all notion of his body ceases to be chained to material existence. As long as we remain aware of our bodily existence, we lead a conditioned existence under the influence of the attributes of material nature. But as soon as we forget physical existence, then conditioned material life ends. Now this forgetfulness becomes possible when we use our senses in the service of the Lord's absolute love. In the conditioned state, the being uses his senses by identifying himself with a given family, a community or a nation; but as soon as he forgets all of these circumstantial material designations and realizes his eternal nature as a servant of the Supreme Lord, he can then truly forget everything about material existence. This forgetfulness occurs when one serves the Lord.

The holy being no longer acts with his body with a view to satisfying the senses within the framework of a family, a community, a nation or humanity; it works only for God, the Supreme Person. This is the perfect conscience of God.

The saint always bathes in spiritual bliss, so that he experiences no material suffering. This state of spiritual bliss constitutes eternal happiness. As soon as one gets rid of the defilement of the three influences of material nature, virtue, passion and