Spiritual life leads us to our primordial, original state, free from all material identification. We reach the state which frees us from all anguish, pain and lust. Once this state is reached, it is then possible to think in terms of universal brotherhood.
The next step is to fully engage in the consciousness of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, and thus gradually come closer to the spiritual world where we find eternal life, all of knowledge and bliss. In other words, when the spiritual soul is freed from all contamination or material designation, it no longer reincarnates in another material body after death. She then joins the spirit world and abides eternally in one or the other of the spiritual planets known as the Vaikuntha planets. Lord Krishna dwells in the highest of these planets, Goloka Vrindavana.
We are not the body of dense matter, but spiritual beings imprisoned in a material body. Our real interest is to understand this simple truth, then we can make further progress in the spiritual realm. Otherwise, if we stick to our bodily conception of existence, our miserable life in this material world will continue forever. We will have to endure the sufferings of material life one after another. This is why this existence is a real reservoir of miserable conditions.
In reality, everything depends on the will of God. It is by virtue of the latter that we are born into such and such a family, in such and such an environment, with such and such a personality. All this is regulated by the Supreme Lord according to the desires suggested to us by maya, the energy of illusion. Consequently everything depends on God, the Supreme Person.
All mobile and immobile beings living in this material world, including us, are in a temporary situation. This situation did not exist before we were born, and after we die, it will no longer exist. As a result, our present situation is only fleeting. Likewise, all material creation, including other creatures and ourselves, is transitory in nature.
In our past life we had a different body from the current one, a family, parents, brothers, sisters, friends and a country different from the current ones, which we have abandoned and forgotten to reincarnate in a new body, with a new family, new parents and siblings, new friends, a new country on another continent, even on another planet. All this concerns only the ephemeral material body and not us, the embodied spiritual souls.
Just as one seed produces another, a body [that of the father], through the intermediary of a second body [that of the mother], begets another [that of a son or a daughter]. Just as the elements of the material body are eternal, the living being that appears within these elements is also eternal. Those that are called “father” and