I respond to the worship of the pious believer according to the particular transcendental feeling that animates them. Such is My nature. The devotional service offered to Me by living beings rekindles eternal life within them.

These are the only energies of God, which act everywhere.

Learn from my lips that it is my energies alone that act everywhere. Take an earthenware pot; you have nothing but a combination of earth, water, fire, air, and ether. Whether the pot is new, old, or broken, the same elements always compose it. When it is created, the pot is only a combination of earth, water, fire, air, and ether; throughout its existence, its components remain the same, and when it is finally destroyed, annihilated, its ingredients will be preserved in various sectors of material energy.

In the same vein, during the creation of this cosmos, throughout its manifestation, as well as after its destruction, it is my energy, always the same, which takes on different aspects. And because my energy is not separate from my Person, it must be concluded that I exist in all things.

Similarly, the body of a living being is nothing other than an assemblage of the five gross elements, and the being incarnated in this material condition is itself a fragment of my Person. If the soul finds itself thus imprisoned, it is because it harbors a mistaken conception of its identity and considers itself the supreme beneficiary. It is this false ego in the living being that forces it to experience incarceration within material existence.

As the Supreme and Absolute Truth, I personally stand beyond the living being, as well as its material envelope. Both energies, material and spiritual, act under my sovereign authority. I ask you not to grieve so much, and to try to view everything philosophically. You will then understand that you are always with me, and therefore there is no cause for lamentation in the separation of our bodies.

It is activities aimed at sense gratification, whose sole purpose is to please the mind and the senses, that are the cause of bondage to matter. As long as the soul engages in these self-serving actions, it will continue to reincarnate from one species to another.

When someone considers sense gratification as the goal of their life, they become insanely involved in material life and engage in all sorts of sinful activities. They do not know that it is because of their past misdeeds that they have already received a material body, which, despite its transient nature, is the cause of their suffering.

Truly, the separate being (the spiritual soul distinct from God) should never have assumed this physical form, but it was bestowed upon them for the gratification of their senses. Therefore, I do not believe it is fitting for an intelligent person to become entangled again in material activities that would require him to continually assume bodies, life after life. As long as a living being does not inquire into the spiritual values ​​of existence, he must experience defeat and the evils resulting from ignorance.