But it is still beyond this subtle state that the real form of beings is located, otherwise how could they be born and reborn, again and again again?

Just as some equate the gigantic material manifestation with the body of the Lord, others lend Him a subtle, ethereal form, existing outside of hearing, seeing, or any other way of manifestation, and perceptible, according to them, only by inner realization. But these concepts only apply to the dense and ethereal forms of matter conditioned beings, for the form of the Supreme Lord is purely spiritual.

The soul itself possesses, beyond physical identities and psychic which cover it in the conditioned state, a form of the same nature. Besides, the material body and the psychic functions cease to exercise their activity as soon as the spiritual being leaves the visible carnal envelope. In truth, when we say of a being after it has left its material body: “It is gone”, it is because we can no longer distinguish its action in the body. As long as it was in the body, its presence could still be perceived, even during sleep, when the body is inactive, through the movement of the breath. So when the eternal soul leaves the body, and the body it occupied dies, that does not mean that it also ceases to exist; if not, how could she be born again and again?

In conclusion, the Lord exists eternally in his spiritual and absolute form, which is neither material nor subtle (ethereal) like those in the incarnate spiritual being, and who should never be compared to them. The individual and distinct being from God that each of us is, also possesses an eternal spiritual form, which only passes into the conditioned state through the effect of material contamination due to his incarceration in a body made of dense matter.

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As soon as the human being, by the realization of his spiritual identity, realizes that his bodily envelopes, material and subtle, have nothing in common with his true self, he is knows, sees himself, and, at the same time, sees the Lord.

Spiritual realization is distinguished from material illusion in that we perceive in it only the temporary and illusory forms, the material body and the ethereal body, which material energy imposes on us are only superficial envelopes of the true self. These envelopes are the product of ignorance, and they can never cover the Supreme Lord. Reaching the certainty of it is properly what is called liberation, or seeing the Absolute. This is why achieving perfect spiritual realization involves embracing the spiritual life, all of virtue. Realizing one's spiritual identity means that one becomes