As all material existence is centered on the satisfaction of the senses, the latter represent the vehicles of material action. This is why they must be detached from all material activity. Holy beings do not seek to prevent the material senses from acting, but rather to employ their spiritual senses in the service of transcendence, of the Sovereign Lord. In either case, knowledge must be cultivated so as to put an end to the activities of the senses on the material plane, and, if possible, to use them in the service of the Lord. By nature, the senses are spiritual, but their activities become tainted when they are contaminated with matter.
May all our senses explore spiritual variety, and only then will our spiritual senses be fulfilled and forever freed from all material activity. The Lord, as Supreme Soul living in the heart of every being and as Sovereign Person inhabiting the spiritual world, far beyond material creation, is a witness to all our actions. They must therefore be so overloaded with spiritual energy that the Lord will deign to cast a favorable glance on us and make us participate in his sublime service; only then will our senses be perfectly fulfilled, and never again disturbed by the charms of matter.
It is written: “Even apart from material pleasures, the embodied soul can still feel some desire for them. But let her taste a higher joy, and she will lose this desire, to remain in the spiritual consciousness.”
Logos 146
The soul is pure consciousness and it never separates itself from this consciousness, whether under the influence of time, in dreams or in any other circumstance, or for any other cause. How, then, can she sink into ignorance?
The consciousness of a spiritual being distinct from God always accompanies her, he is never separated from him. When a man moves from one place to another, he is aware of his movement in space. This awareness always accompanies him, in the past, the present and the future. Any man can remember the incidents that marked his past and can also conjecture about his future from this experience. The being never forgets his personal identity, even in the most unusual circumstances. How then can he forget his real identity as a pure spiritual soul and identify with matter, with his body, unless he is subjected to some influence greater than himself?
In fact, the distinct being undergoes influence of the external energy of God. In truth, he is an integral part of the Supreme Lord, but as his power, and not as the Mighty himself. The Mighty One, God, can manifest many powers, but the power cannot equal its source at any time. One power can certainly dominate another, but all powers remain under the domination of the Mighty. The distinct being, the marginal energy of God, thus tends to allow itself to be dominated by the external power, as a consequence of which it finds itself placed in the painful circumstances of material