What about reincarnation?
That’s a whole lecture in itself… but very briefly: The spirit soul, being eternal, obviously resides somewhere. When we have our material consciousness that means we reside in the material world, in material bodies (many different kinds). Each body is very temporary, it doesn’t last long. We live our term in that body, then we go to another body according to our consciousness, desire, karma, etc., and then after that – to another, another … (This is the wheel of birth and death.) Until finally we develop this love for God, while we have the human form. Then we go back to the spiritual world and get off the wheel of birth and death.