The first conception bathes in darkness of the three attributes and modes of influence of material nature; virtue, passion and ignorance, while the other is at the level of pure virtue.
When we say that we are letting go of our ego, it means that we are letting go of false egos. The true ego is always there. The identification of being in the conditioned state, with its material possessions, must be purified. He must rediscover his identity in relation to the Supreme Lord. In the conditioned state the being sees everything as an object of personal satisfaction, while in the liberated state he sees everything in relation to the service of the Supreme Lord.
Thus, Krishna consciousness, devotional service, corresponds to the true liberated state. On the contrary, the acceptance or rejection of anything on the material plane, within the framework of nihilism or impersonnalism, places the pure soul in an imperfect situation.
Lord Krishna says:
As soon as the distinct being establishes himself in the glory of his real self and begins to taste the happiness of transcendence, beyond time and material energy, he immediately frees himself from the two false concepts of the existence [“je” and “mien”], and then sees its pure and true identity fully manifested.
One must perfect one's vision through knowledge of matter and of spirit, and to avoid identifying oneself in vain with the body at the risk of letting oneself be attracted by material affinities.
At the moment of death, fire (internal heat) burns the body with dense matter, and if one no longer feels desire for material enjoyment, the ethereal body is also annihilated, then only the pure soul remains.
The one who frees himself from the chains that held him prisoner of the two bodies of dense and ethereal matter and remains in the state of soul pure, return to Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, to his original abode, in order to enter into the service of the Lord for eternity.
Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, is the real, unique and ultimate goal of existence. Going to find him in his absolute realm, all of knowledge, bliss and eternity, the place