The Lord adds: When an individual, believing themselves separate from Me, forgets their spiritual identity—that they are One with Me in quality, in eternity, knowledge, and bliss—their conditioned material existence begins. In other words, instead of aligning their interests with Mine, they begin to focus on extensions of their body, such as their wife, children, and material possessions. Thus, through their actions, one birth leads to another, and one death to another.

All those in our material galaxy came here for one reason:

They desired to experience the same bliss as Krishna, God, the Supreme Person. Therefore, they were sent to this material world to be conditioned to varying degrees by material nature.

Above all, do not listen to the demonic unbelievers who claim that the individual spiritual being that each of us is equal to God, the Supreme Person, for therein lies the cause of existence conditioned by the material world.

As soon as an individual spiritual being, distinct from God, forgets its own position and seeks to become One with the Absolute (God), its conditioned existence begins.

Indeed, it is the conception that the Supreme Lord and the spiritual being distinct from God are equal not only qualitatively but also quantitatively that is at the origin of conditioned existence. Whoever forgets the difference that exists between the Supreme Lord and the individual being is subject to the conditions of the material world, which implies that they will have to abandon one material body to accept another, and die only to die again.

Those who refuse to submit to the commands of the Supreme Lord are granted the opportunity to enjoy existence in the material universe. Rather than restraining the conditioned being, the Lord provides them with the chance to experience life in this world, so that, through trial and error, they come to understand, after many rebirths or reincarnations, that surrender to God is the sole duty of all beings.

Since everything depends on the will of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, our one and only duty is to surrender to Him and seek His protection.

Embodied souls, who originally belong to the spiritual world, are sent to the material universe because they became envious of the Lord.

But in truth, the primary reason God expelled certain souls from His kingdom is that they rejected the service of love and devotion they owed Him—an eternal duty that all souls perform. They were thus forced to fall immediately into the prison of this material world and accept a material body.

The degradation of all those who live in the material cosmos, on whatever planets they may be, is due to their disobedience and their forgetting of their relationship with God. We are all, in truth, the eternal servants of Krishna. Our duty, therefore, is to serve Him with love and devotion.

Such is the perfection of existence.