Logos 271

Material creation is like forming a cloud in the vastness of the sky, and the spiritual world represents the true sky.

The material universe, where the Supreme Lord allows conditioned souls to act under his tutelage, is successively created and then annihilated in an endless cycle. Material creation is akin to the formation of a cloud in the vastness of the sky, and the spiritual world represents the true sky, which is eternally invaded by the radiance which emanates from the body of God, and which is also called brahmajyoti. Somewhere in this limitless space is formed the cloud of material creation, where are placed the embodied and conditioned souls seeking to impose their will against that of the Lord, so that they give free rein to their aspirations under the tutelage of energy external of the Lord. Just as the rainy season appears and then disappears every year at regular intervals, so does the creation which is successively manifested and then annihilated by the will of the Lord.

This cycle of creations and annihilations of the material world is willed by the Lord in order to allow conditioned souls to act as they please and thus create their own destiny: indeed, these are their own respective desires at the time of destruction which determine the conditions under which they will reappear.

The material manifestation, although containing innumerable galaxies, covers only a tiny part of the spiritual world. It forms like a cloud in the clear sky of the spiritual world, where the radiance of the spiritual radiance of God is everywhere diffused, where everywhere the spiritual light shines.

Logos 272

All bad deeds result from ignorance, and all good deeds have virtue in essence. Ignorance is the major cause of suffering and bondage. It is out of ignorance that people commit many guilty acts and get bogged down in the matter. Beings enlightened with true spiritual knowledge naturally become good.

The Eternal Supreme says: “Similar to the blazing fire that converts wood to ashes, the blaze of knowledge reduced to ashes all the consequences of material actions.”

The blaze of knowledge consumes all guilty actions. To that end, people need to be educated. Born ignorant, education is required to dispel their ignorance. Born into the illusion of the bodily conception of existence, people behave like animals. We