The body is part of the material manifestation. The living being, or the spiritual soul, when it comes into contact with matter, driven by the illusory pleasures it experiences, reincarnates from body to body, this is called material existence. This contact of the being with the material manifestation cannot be described as assimilation or separation. The spiritual soul is certainly the cause of this material body, as the sun is the cause of its light, sight and forms of material manifestation. This example of the sun and the material manifestation lends itself perfectly to illustrate, to make it understand, the nature of the contact of living beings with the material universe.

In the morning the sun rises and heat and light grow little by little. From the sun results the production of all material forms. Through the sun the integration and disintegration of the material elements takes place. But as soon as the sun sets, the manifestation it caused loses contact with it, passing from one place to another. When the sun passes from the eastern hemisphere to the western hemisphere, its action in the first remains, although it is only visible in the second.

Similarly, the living being accepts, or produces, different bodies and, in different circumstances, different body-centered relationships. But as soon as he abandons his first body to put on a second, he has no connection with the abandoned body, nor with the body that must succeed the one he has just put on. The living being does not cease to be free from contact with the material stain, with the body. Thus, the appearance and disappearance of the body does not affect the living being, the soul.

The perception of material existence is like a sleep populated with dreams. The sleeping man dreams that events, all illusory, occur in his existence, and, as he adheres to his dream, consequently he sees himself subjected to various forms of distress and happiness.

Similarly, the being who finds himself immersed in this dream that is the material consciousness suffers from having accepted a material body and then having to leave it. Krishna consciousness is the opposite of this material consciousness. This means that the being, when it rises to the level of Krishna consciousness, frees itself from any false conception of existence.

Let us not let false reasons, which are the daughters of ignorance, afflict us, for misfortune arises only from erroneous concepts, so that in an instant it dissipates when we talk about the true philosophy of existence.