The Real Function of Illusory Energy.

Under the influence of material energy, beings incarnated and conditioned by matter and illusory energy become entangled in a thousand difficulties solely for the sake of enjoying paltry material happiness, which they are unaware of as fleeting. They engage in self-interested action without understanding its implications, effects, and consequences. Driven by the mistaken belief that they are the material body in which they reside, conditioned beings foolishly surround themselves with countless attachments, all illusory. They thus believe they can live perpetually in this material environment. This gross misunderstanding exerts such a hold over them that they suffer continually, life after life, imprisoned by the external energy of the Lord, in its aspect of illusory energy, which thus seeks to compel sentient beings to turn towards the Supreme Lord so that they will eventually obey Him and do His divine will.

Let us all realize that all bodily conceptions of pleasure are only products of illusory energy and realize that all things in this material world are only the creation of material energy, in its aspect of illusory energy.

Where do the “Messiahs,” the envoys of Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, also called “Sons of God,” come from, and who are they?

The Lord dispatches one of His servants to this world to instruct the embodied souls.

Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is so benevolent that He grants souls captivated by sense pleasures a separate world, created by Himself, to allow them to enjoy life as they desire. However, He also appears there in His personal form.

Indeed, Lord Krishna reluctantly created the material universe, but He descends there in His personal form, or dispatches one of His trustworthy sons or servants, or a trustworthy author like the Avatar Vyasadeva, to instruct the conditioned souls.

He also conveys his guidance to them through the Bhagavad-gita, also called “The Song of the Lord,” or “Words of Krishna, Christ, God, the Supreme Personality.”

All this sublime work of preaching takes place concurrently with creation, in order to convince the misguided souls languishing in the material universe to return to His kingdom, to Him, and to surrender completely to Him.

Hence the ultimate teaching of “Words of Krishna, Christ, God, the Supreme Personality”: Leave all your illusory occupations in this world and simply surrender to me. I will free you from all the consequences of your sins.

The six perfections—beauty, wealth, power, fame, wisdom, and renunciation—properly belong to Krishna, the Supreme Absolute Personality of Godhead. Individual beings distinct from God, tiny fragments of His Divine Person, and integral parts of the Supreme Being, can also possess all these material attributes, but only partially, in a maximum proportion of 78%, 78% compared to the Lord.

In the material universe, these attributes of the distinct being are manifested to a lesser degree, veiled as they are by the material energy of God. The attributes of the being who has come into this world [the incarnate being] lose their original color and are almost entirely extinguished.