Many who have obtained liberation for simply having thought of God with sustained attention and renouncing any sinful act
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The Supreme Lord, present in the heart of every living being, gives directives to each according to his assimilation capacities.
Appearances do not determine who enjoys God's favor or not. Depending on one's attitude, the Lord can become a direct counselor as well as a stranger. It manifests itself in each of us according to our ability to perceive it. God reveals himself in proportion to the degree of receptivity of each one. The Lord is impartial towards all, and each one progresses in the conscience of God according to his capacity to receive his grace.
The more a person progresses in virtue, the more his brilliance is revealed by virtue of devotional service; conversely, the more passion and ignorance cover it, the less visible its brilliance. The fact that our characteristics are more or less visible does not come from the partiality of the Supreme Lord but from the degree to which the influences of the material nature, Virtue-passion-ignorance cover us. Thus we can understand how much we have progressed in virtue and to what extent we are influenced by passion and ignorance.
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The Lord said: “When an individual being, believing himself different from Me, forgets his spiritual identity, according to which he is only One with Me qualifyingly, both in eternity and in knowledge and in bliss, his conditioned material existence then begins. In other words, instead of identifying his interests with Mine, he begins to take an interest in the extensions of his body, such as his wife, his children and his material possessions. Thus, by the effect of his acts, one birth is followed by another, and a death of another death”.
Do not listen to the demonic disbelievers who claim that the spiritual being is there equal to God, the Supreme Person, for therein lies the cause of conditioned existence. As soon as a being distinct from God forgets his own position and seeks to become one with the Absolute, his conditioned existence begins. It is indeed the conception according to which the Supreme Lord and the spiritual being distinct from God are equal not only in quality, but also in quantity, which is at the origin of conditioned existence. Anyone who forgets the difference between the Supreme Lord and the distinct being finds himself subject to the conditions of the material