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Understanding the plan of the Lord

Becoming an instrument of the Lord’s plan is the
fulfillment of human life. Modern scientists and
thinkers assume that nature is moving without a
plan and the entire material manifestation has come
about by accident. These speculators are lacking
knowledge. There is a specific plan being carried out
in this material world. What is this plan? The material

world is a sort of rehabilitation opportunity for
conditioned souls to become reformed and return
back home to Godhead, the eternal spiritual world.

All living entities originally have come from the
spiritual world. They misused their limited free
will by becoming envious of the Supreme Lord and
desiring to lord it over material nature. Such a desire
in the mind of a resident of the spiritual world will
immediately make them fall down to the material
world and thus give up the transcendental loving
service of the Supreme Lord. As one increases
the propensity to lord it over material nature, he
becomes attached to matter and the possession of
matter. All the problems of material life are due to
these misdirected priorities of the living entity. As

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