How can we escape forgetfulness?

We have forgotten everything about God, the bond that unites us to Him, our true spiritual identity, our original home in the spiritual world. How can we escape this illusory world where we must undergo the cycle of repeated reincarnations and, in each life, experience these four sufferings: birth, illness, old age, and death?

We have forgotten God, as well as the loving and devoted service we must offer Him. This is why we are lost in this world of the dead and successive reincarnations, where suffering is permanent.

In truth, forgetfulness stems from three sources.

The first source is remaining distant from God.

The second source is the change of body at the time of death, which causes it, because as spirit souls, we must reincarnate. In reality, forgetfulness comes from death. When we die, we must change bodies, which then causes forgetfulness.

The third source is the body in which we are reincarnated, which perpetuates forgetfulness.

Blessed are those who live outside the material sphere, who surrender completely to God and serve Him with love and devotion, for they will emerge from forgetfulness and see the Supreme Lord face to face for eternity.

We are all spirit souls incarnated in a human body due to our disobedience to God. It is the material body in which we are incarnated that causes us to forget God, our true spiritual identity, and thus plunges us into perpetual suffering and perdition.

In the conditioned state, incarnated beings belonging to the marginal energy are a combination of material and spiritual energy. Marginal energy is originally under the control of spiritual energy, but under the influence of material energy, incarnate fallen souls have been wandering in oblivion within the material world since time immemorial.

Are those who enter the spiritual world welcomed?

Yes, those who arrive in the spiritual world are greeted with shouts of joy.

Those who obey Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who follow His instructions, who do His will, who surrender to Him and serve Him with love and devotion, will very quickly attain their original, spiritual state, and as spiritual beings, they will return to the Lord to listen to Him play His marvelous flute. They will be attracted and fascinated by the sublime spiritual sound vibrations emanating from it, but also to play, dance, and eat with Him. And upon their arrival in Krishna's kingdom, they will be greeted by shouts of joy from all the pure beings who live there. An ineffable happiness will overwhelm them.

Where do sense energy, mental power, physical strength, and the source of all life force come from?

Sense energy, mental power, physical strength, and the very source of all life force, proceed from the ethereal spaces contained in the spiritual and absolute body of Maha-Visnu, the plenary emanation of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person.