material world and to enter it. Devotional service enables one to know the Supreme Lord, and one who knows the sovereignty of the Lord is able to understand everything. This is the verdict of the original holy scriptures, “the true gospel”. The knowledge of the one who knows the Supreme covers everything.
He who aspires to such perfection should seek the mercy of the Lord, for there is no other recourse. Seeking knowledge by relying on one's own efforts is only a waste of time.
Logos 113
Human beings must establish themselves on the spiritual and absolute level, where neither time nor energy material do not exert their influence.
A state conditioned by matter, the embodied spiritual being subjected to the action of time lives in a dream made up of past, present and future. Those who are passionate about intellectual speculation try to overcome the influence of time by imagining themselves to become the Supreme Lord, simply by cultivating knowledge and subjugating the ego. Now, this process is imperfect.
The perfect way is to recognize God as the supreme reality of all that is, and the highest perfection of knowledge is to surrender to Him, knowing that He is the source and the origin of everything. Only such a level of consciousness will free us from the false concepts of “je” and “mien”, which plunge the being into oblivion of his true identity and allow us to know that we are, in truth, spiritual entities, spiritual souls.
Logos 114
In truth, at the end of old age the soul transmigrates into a new body determined by the acts which it will have accomplished during its life.
It is indeed the spiritual soul which itself creates its body by the force of its personal desires. The Lord's external energy, the material nature, only provides him with the particular material envelope by which his desires can be fully satisfied. The tiger, for example, during its previous existence had certainly desired to delight in the blood of other animals, and by the mercy of the Lord, it sees itself today endowed by material energy with a body which corresponds to his bloodthirsty desires. Likewise, one who wishes to obtain a celestial body, on a higher planet, will also be answered by the mercy of the Lord. As for the one who has the intelligence to desire a spiritual body which allows him to benefit from the companionship of the Lord, he too will see his desire fulfilled. Each one can use as he wishes the tiny part of freedom which is