sinking down

The easiest choice for the soul to make is to choose enjoyment over suffering. It thus makes a series of unintelligent choices which give only temporary benefit or pleasure. It then becomes habituated through the mind to make the same choices again and again. Eventually it finds itself in the pits, sinking further.

Telling others the truth is ineffective because everyone has full faith in illusion. No one thinks the coronavirus is a punishment from. GOD. Some think it is by chance, some think it is evil, some don't care. But hardly anyone would believe it is a punishment. People gladly suffer in the material world without thinking twice about why they must suffer. Why should a soul have to experience bodily death, rebirth, old age, and sickness? No one questions it and everyone goes on with the program, happily making the wrong choices based on the promptings of the false ego, and ordains a terrible future life unwittingly. And in the present moment, each remains ignorant of

Their identity

Their sphere of influence

Their safety

Their faulty ability to think discriminate and choose, 

And their limited intelligence and complete dependence on Krishna.

Reading Srila Prabhupada's books regularly immunizes us to the effects of maya, her misleading suggestions, and her tricks to trap us in an endless cycle of rebirth.

I am so sorry that I fed my lust, greed, envy, pride, anger, illusion, and false ego in general. I am so sorry that I am now so sick that mt tongue is diseased and I cannot taste the Holy Name. Just chanting once is enough. But I am. Not in proper health and so cannot chant properly.

Proper health is to think of others

Think about making others happy

Think about how I can serve

Bad health is to think of how I can serve my own selfish desires

How I can make my own self independently happy

And to keep thinking about me.