of the lives of poor animals. This is not what we need to do, because we need to feel compassion for all spiritual beings embodied in human, animal and plant bodies. Whether humans, animals, trees or various plants, all beings are children of God.

The Lord says: “Understand that all kinds of life proceed from the womb of material nature, and that I am the father, who gives the seed.”

The different forms of these living beings are only the clothing that covers them. Each being is in fact a spiritual soul, a piece of God. So it is not a question of caring for the good of a single category of beings.

It is written: “The humble sage, enlightened by pure knowledge, sees with equal eye the noble and learned saint, the cow, the elephant, or even the dog and the pariah.”

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When the individual spiritual soul transmigrates, reincarnates, from one body of matter to another, the Supreme Soul accompanies it.

In truth, the embodied spiritual soul is found deep in the heart of the body of matter in which it resides for a time, the duration of which only God knows. The Supreme Soul and the individual soul live in the same body. The Supreme Soul is called a friend, because God, the Sovereign Person, shows so much kindness to the individual soul that He accompanies it when it transmigrates from one body to another. In addition, the Lord, through material energy, his agent, creates a new body for him according to his desires and karma. The heart plays a mechanical role in the body. As God explains by this word:

“The Lord stands in the hearts of all beings, and directs their wanderings to all, each of whom is found on a machine made up of material energy.”

The operator of the machine, that is, of the body, is the individual soul, which is also its master and owner, but the supreme owner is God, the Sovereign Person. The body of a person is created by means of the material energy of God, through specific parents, human or animal, and according to the activities of this person during this life, another vehicle will be created for him through specific parents, always under the guidance of material energy which acts under the authority of Krishna, God. When the time comes, our next body is immediately determined, and the individual soul as well as the Supreme Soul are transported in this new “machine”.