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The Lord said: “Those who always serve Me and adore Me with love and devotion, I give them intelligence through which they will be able to come to Me.”
The service of love and devotion offered to the Lord is characterized by the fact that the holy being, the one who practices it, must be freed from all forms of filth and material desire. This liberation is the renunciation of all material desire. Whoever is absorbed in the service of love and devotion offered to the Lord by following the regulatory principles which govern it, sees himself naturally freed from all material desire, and it is when this level is reached that one can realize the Supreme Lord. The Divine Person, located in the heart of every being, instructs his devotee in matters of pure devotional service, so that he can finally obtain his companionship.
The mind must be mastered, and this can be accomplished by observing spiritual rites and performing various forms of sacrifice. The ultimate goal of all these practices is to achieve the devotional service offered to the Lord. Without devotional service, no one can know the Sovereign Person, Krishna.
Logos 152
The Lord said: “Once you are released from the concept of material and ethereal bodies, and your senses will be released from all influence of the gunas (the attributes of material nature) you will have, in my presence, the realization of your pure form. Then, you will evolve at the level of pure consciousness”.
The science of God teaches that a person whose only desire is to serve the Lord with absolute love is a liberated being regardless of the conditions to which material existence subjects him. This attitude of service corresponds to the real form of the individual being, distinct from God. Truly, the real, spiritual form of a distinct being is to be an eternal servant of the Supreme Lord. In the spiritual world, service to the Lord is based on absolute love. Absolute loving service cannot be compared in any way to the forced service found in this world. In the material world, even one who feels like he is nobody's servant must at least serve his senses under the dictation of the gunas. In fact, no one is master in this world, and all those who serve their senses have a very bad experience with “service”; because it is rather a question of servitude. So they tremble at the thought of having to serve, for they know nothing about the spiritual condition.
In the service of absolute love, the servant is as free as the master. The latter is perfectly independent, and in the spiritual world the servant also enjoys this quality of perfect independence, because there is no forced service. Absolute service arises