The Eternal Supreme says: “He who can see that it is the body, born of the material nature, which performs all action, that never the soul, interior, acts, this one in truth sees”.

The body is formed by material nature, under the direction of the Supreme Soul, and no activity belongs to being itself. Whatever he does, or is supposed to do, for his happiness or his misfortune, the being is constrained by his corporal constitution; and the real self remains outside of all these physical activities. The body is obtained according to past desires of being, to satisfy them. And the being will act according to the body that it covers. So to speak, the body is a machine, designed by the Supreme Lord to satisfy the desires of being conditioned, desires which are at the very source of the difficulties it encounters, in pleasure as in suffering. This spiritual vision of being makes it possible, when one develops it, to detach oneself from the activities of the body, and whoever possesses it sees things in their just relief.

Logos 283

The soul is all goodness at the origin. When one accesses the soul plane, all is goodness. All beings are an integral part of God, the Infinitely Good. Being part of God, we are also pure because we are spiritual souls.

Impurities are acquired by the defilement of the material universe due to our incarnation and our conditioning by matter and our material body. Because the three gunas, the three attributes and modes of influence of material nature, virtue, passion and ignorance, influence the soul, it suffers. She must be relieved of all suffering. From a material point of view, one can be a wise scholar defiled by virtue or a worker defiled by passion or ignorance. But from a spiritual point of view, both are contaminated by material Nature. Hence their suffering. As long as these material influences touch us, we are all housed in the same boat.

Logos 284

The LORD Supreme said: “He will attain liberation, the one who thus understands the material nature, and what is the living being and the interaction of the three gunas (virtue, passion and ignorance). Whatever his present condition, never again will he be reborn in this world”.

A clear vision of material nature, of the Supreme Soul, of the individual being distinct from God and of the relationships which exist between them, makes one capable of