man is compelled to act by the influence of the three attributes of material nature, and cannot remain inactive, not even for a moment. The one who retains his senses and his organs of action, but whose mind is still attached to the objects of the senses, is lulled with illusions, and is only a simulator.
The one who disciplines his senses by mastering his mind, and which without attachment engages its organs of action in acts of devotion, is far superior to him. Do your duty, for action is better than inaction. Without taking action, man is incapable of looking after his simplest needs. But the action should be offered to God, lest it bind its author to the material world. Do your duty to please Him, and forever you will be free from the chains of matter”.
Logos 54
The Lord says: “He who turns his senses away from their objects has a sure intelligence. What is night for all beings becomes for the man who has mastered his senses, the time of awakening. What, for all, is the time of awakening, is night for the wise man who has been collected.
He who remains unshakable despite the incessant flow of desires, as the ocean remains unchanging despite the thousand rivers that flow there throw, alone can find serenity; but certainly not the one who seeks to satisfy these desires.
The one who is no longer attracted by material pleasures, who is no longer a slave to his desires, who has rejected all spirit of possession and who has freed himself from the false ego, (Identification with the material body) alone can know perfect serenity. These are the fashions of spirituality. Whoever settles there, even at the moment of death, comes out of his confusion, and the Kingdom of God opens to him”.
Logos 55
The Lord said: “Even apart from material pleasures, the embodied soul can still feel some desire for them. But let her access a higher joy, and she will lose this desire to remain in the spiritual consciousness.
The senses are strong and impetuous. They even delight the mind of the man of wisdom who wants to master them. Whoever restricts his senses and becomes absorbed in Me proves a sure intelligence. By contemplating the objects of the senses, man becomes attached, from which is born lust, and lust, anger. Anger calls for illusion, and illusion causes memory to be lost. When memory goes astray, intelligence is lost, and man again falls into the ocean of material existence.