The root cause of suffering by the materialistic living beings is ignorance about the purpose of our existence, our goal of life and the ultimate perfection to be gained. All this occurs due to the covering of illusion or the external energy of the Lord.
Due to this external energy, the living entity, although transcendental to the three modes of material nature, thinks of himself as a material product and thus undergoes the reactions of material miseries.
The living being is by constitution transcendental to material encagement, but he is now imprisoned by the external energy, and therefore he thinks himself one of the material products. And due to this unholy contact, the pure spiritual entity suffers material miseries under the modes of material nature. The living entity misunderstands himself to be a material product. This means that the present perverted way of thinking, feeling and willing, under material conditions, is not natural for him.
But he has his normal way of thinking, feeling and willing. The living being in his original state is not without thinking, willing and feeling power. It is also confirmed in our holy texts that the actual knowledge of the conditioned soul is now covered by nescience. The living entity has his own way of thinking in his original unconditional state also. The present conditional state is due to the influence of the external energy, which means that the illusory energy takes the initiative while the Supreme Lord is aloof.
The Lord does not desire that a living being be illusioned by external energy. The external energy is aware of this fact, but still she accepts a thankless task of keeping the forgotten soul under illusion by her bewildering influence. The Lord does not interfere with the task of the illusory energy because such performances of the illusory energy are also necessary for reformation of the conditioned soul.
An affectionate father does not like his children to be chastised by another agent, yet he puts his disobedient children under the custody of a severe man just to bring them to order. But the all-affectionate Almighty Father at the same time desires relief for the conditioned soul, relief from the clutches of the illusory energy.
Another analogy is of the judge puts the disobedient citizens within the walls of the jail, but sometimes the judge, desiring the prisoners' relief, personally goes there and pleads for reformation, and on his doing so the prisoners are set free.
Therefore, the veil of illusion can be uncovered when we sincerely pray to the Supreme Lord to bestow His mercy by engaging in Hus devotional service and chanting the glories of His Holy Name. By simply having faith in the power of His grace, following the path shown by Him can we uncover this fabric of nescience that would expose our intellect to the Ultimate perfection of life and divine enlightenment.
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