The embodied and matter-conditioned soul is wrongly heading towards an erroneous goal, life after life, and it is God who gives it this goal in memory. In the course of a lifetime, the conditioned soul desires to progress towards a certain goal, but it forgets while changing bodies. Nevertheless, because she wishes to enjoy something in this world, God reminds her of it in her next life.

Because the conditioned soul sometimes wishes to forget God, by his grace the Lord gives him life afterwards. life the means so that it is thus, in an almost perpetual way.

God thus directs eternally the incarnate souls. It is because the Supreme Lord is the original cause of all that is that everything seems real. He is the ultimate reality, God, the Supreme Person.

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The external energy under its aspect of illusory energy called maya, acts under the authority of God, and conditions the incarnate souls.

The actual conditioning of the embodied spiritual being is due only to the influence of the illusory external energy, that is to say, it exercises this influence of itself. The Supreme Lord is not in any way involved in this undesirable act. He has no desire to see individual beings distinct from his Person thus allowed himself to be played and led astray by his external energy, which is akin to Satan.

She herself is very aware of this fact, but nevertheless accepts the ungrateful task of maintaining by his influence the forgetful souls in error, which is the center of fear.

The Lord in no way restrains his illusory energy in the accomplishment of this task, because it is necessary to the reform of souls embodied and conditioned by matter.

A loving father does not like to see his children punished by others. However, when they show themselves to be rebellious, He does not hesitate to place them under the care of a stern guardian, for the sole purpose of putting them back on the right path. But the almighty Father, in his infinite love, desires at the same time the deliverance of conditioned souls, their release from the clutches of illusory energy.

The king throws his rebellious citizens behind bars, but sometimes preferring them free, he goes in person to the prison and implores them to repent, so that they can be released.