The spiritual being is separated from Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, because of their disobedience to the Lord, their refusal to serve Him with love and devotion, their envy of God, and their questioning of the Sovereign Person's authority and supremacy; their true meaning is thus lost.

In truth, the individual spiritual beings who descended into this world of dense matter themselves chose the pleasures of the senses and the pursuit of material delights. It was not Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, who sent them here. The Lord, in His goodness, justly granted their desire.

God created the material world to satisfy all those who wish to abandon the eternal service they owe to the Lord and who desire to become the supreme masters and beneficiaries of all things. When a living being desires to satisfy its senses and forgets the service of the Lord, it is immediately placed in the material world where it then acts freely according to its own desires, thus creating for itself the conditions of existence that will bring about its happiness or unhappiness.

It is important to know that the Lord and living beings are eternally conscious and that neither experiences birth or death.

In truth, the creation of the material universe is part of the Lord's amusements, for He creates it for His own pleasure, and because it occurs when He wills it. This desire of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, is also an extreme act of mercy on His part, for He thus gives souls incarnated and conditioned by matter and illusory energy the opportunity to regain their original consciousness and return to God.

Therefore, no one can blame the Supreme Lord for the creation of this material world.

In truth, Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, placed us in this material world because we became envious of Him.

The Lord tells us: By your intrinsic nature, you are a living soul of purely spiritual essence. The material body cannot be equated with your true identity, nor can the mind, intellect, or false ego. Your true identity is to be the eternal servant of the Supreme Lord. Your status is transcendental in nature. My higher energy is spiritual in essence, while the lower, external energy is material in essence. Situated between these two energies, you therefore belong to my marginal energy, which means that you are One with me while being distinct from me. Being spiritual in nature, you are identical to me. But because you are only a tiny fragment of me, you are simultaneously different from me.