Logos 279

The Supreme Lord said: “Of all that is luminous, the Supreme Soul is the source of light. It is unmanifest, It remains beyond the darkness of matter. It is knowledge, the object of knowledge and the goal of knowledge. It lives in everyone's heart”.

The Supreme Soul, or God, the Supreme Person, is the source of light in all bright objects, such as the sun, the moon, the stars, etc. The spiritual world, illuminated by the radiance of the Supreme Lord, has no need of the sun or the moon. In the material universe, however, this radiance, the irradiated spiritual light of the Lord, is veiled by material nature, or material elements; various light sources, such as the sun, the moon, electrical energy, etc. are therefore necessary.

The knowledge of the Lord is purely spiritual. Whoever ardently desires to reach the spiritual world receives from the Lord, present in everyone's heart, the knowledge necessary to achieve it. Anyone who truly aspires to liberation must surrender to God, the Supreme Person. Only the one who knows God can end the endless cycle of birth and death. The Lord is present as Supreme Master in the hearts of all beings. He has legs and arms spread out everywhere, which obviously does not apply to the infinitesimal soul. We must therefore recognize the existence of two knowing of the field of action, distinct from each other: the infinitesimal soul and the Supreme Soul.

Logos 280

The original nature of the living being (Us) is to be the eternal servant of God, because it is the marginal energy and an emanation of the Lord, both identical and distinct from Him.

The energy of the Supreme Eternal naturally turns into three categories: spiritual energy, energy made up of living beings (embodied souls) and energy of illusion...

Immersed in the forgetfulness of God, the living being has been seduced by its external energy since time immemorial. This is why maya, the energy of illusion, which is similar to Satan, makes him suffer all kinds of sufferings in this material world. Evolving within the material nature, the being reaches sometimes to the higher planets, paradisiacs, where it profits from a prosperous life, sometimes is plunged in conditions of infernal existence, in hell. His condition is perfectly similar to that of the criminal whom the king punishes by plunging him and then lifting him out of the water.