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rays of His transcendental body, just as the sun's rays are emanations from the sun.
According to the  Viṣṇu Purāṇa , the material energy is called  avidyā , or nescience, and is exhibited in the fruitive activities of sense enjoyment. But although the living being has the tendency to be illusioned and trapped by the material energy for sense enjoyment, he belongs to the anti-material energy or spiritual energy. In this sense the living being is the positive energy, whereas matter is the negative energy. Matter does not develop unless in contact with the superior spiritual or anti-material energy, which is directly part and parcel of the spiritual whole. The subject matter of this spiritual energy exhibited by living beings is undoubtedly very complicated for an ordinary man, who is therefore astounded by the subject. Sometimes he partially understands it through the imperfect senses, and sometimes he fails to know it altogether. It is best, therefore, to hear from the highest authority, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, or from His devotee who represents Him in the chain of discipline succession.
This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is meant for the purpose of understanding God. The spiritual master is the living representative of Kṛṣṇa who helps externally, and Kṛṣṇa as Supersoul helps internally. The living entity can take advantage of such guidance and make his life successful. We request that everyone read authoritative literature in order to understand this movement. We have published  Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Kṛṣṇa and The Nectar
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of  Devotion . We are also publishing our magazine  Back to Godhead  every month in many languages. Our mission is to save human society from the pitfalls of incarnating again in the cycle of birth and death.
Everyone should attempt to go to Kṛṣṇa. We have published an article in our  Back to Godhead  magazine entitled "Beyond the Universe." This article describes a place beyond this universe according to knowledge which is in  Bhagavad-gītā .  Bhagavad-gītā  is a very popular book, and there are many editions of it in America and also many from India. Unfortunately, however, many rascals have come to the West to preach  Bhagavad-gītā . They are designated as rascals because they are bluffers who do not give real information. In our  Bhagavad-gītā As It Is , however, the spiritual nature is authoritatively described.
This cosmic manifestation is called nature, but there is another nature, which is superior. The cosmic manifestation is inferior nature, but beyond this nature, which is manifested and unmanifested, there is another nature, which is called  sanātana , eternal. It is easy to understand that everything manifested here is temporary. The obvious example is our body. If one is thirty years old, thirty years ago his body was not manifested, and in another fifty years it will again be unmanifested. That is a factual law of nature. It is manifested and again annihilated, just as waves in the sea rise frequently and then recede. The materialist, however, is simply concerned with this mortal life, which can be