The material nature is the source of multiple varieties of material bodies and senses. There are 8,400,000 forms of life, all created by material nature, all born out of the desire of the incarnate spiritual soul to enjoy this or that form of pleasure, in this or that type of body of dense matter. Located in different bodies, it will experience joys and sorrows, but all will be due only to these material bodies, and not to itself in itself.

In its original condition, the spiritual being does not have to fear losing his happiness, because the latter is at the same time his natural condition, happiness being an integral part of his being.

It is only by desire to dominate the material nature that he is immersed in it. Such a desire has no place in the spiritual world, which is pure.

In the universe of dense matter, everyone struggles hard to find new “prey” of pleasure for his body. Let us know that the material body is the product of the senses, which are the instruments placed at the disposal of the incarnate spiritual being, to satisfy his desires. The whole “body and sense-instruments”, is offered to the spiritual being incarnated by the material nature, according to the desires of the latter, and his past acts.

Thus he will be blessed or damned by material nature, in various conditions “material habitats or bodies”, according to his desires and actions. He is therefore solely responsible for the joys and sorrows that happen to him.

Once placed in a particular body, it falls under the yoke of the material nature, because the material body acts according to the laws proper to matter, to which the being in itself has no power to change anything, it cannot change anything.

So for example if he gets a dog’s body, he will have to act like a dog, it cannot be otherwise. If he receives a pig’s body, he will be forced to eat feces and act like one. If he gets the body of a heavenly being, he will also have to act like one. This is the law of nature.

But in all circumstances, the Supreme Soul accompanies the distinct soul. The Supreme Lord is so good to all beings, that as the Supreme Soul, He always accompanies the incarnate soul, whatever the body in which it is found and whatever the circumstances.

Thus, the distinct being borrows from within the material nature various ways of existing, and there takes advantage of the three attributes and modes of influence of the material nature: virtue, passion and ignorance, and this because it touches the material nature. He then knows in turn sufferings and pleasures, in various forms of life.