accomplished during the day. This is the monotonous story of the materialists. Although they are classified differently as businessmen, lawyers, politicians, teachers, magistrates, porters, pickpockets, laborers, etc., they actually have no other worries than eating, sleep, mate, defend themselves, and satisfy their senses. They thus sacrifice their precious life to seek material pleasures and fail to reach the perfection of existence by the spiritual realization which allows to enter real life where happiness is sublime, the kingdom of God.
Too attached to the pleasures of the senses, to wealth and glory, misled by these desires, no one ever knows the firm will to serve the Supreme Lord with love and devotion, the only way to know perfect bliss and life Eternal.
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The soul is always fully aware and knowing. However, consciousness is the perceptible manifestation of the soul.
If we cannot perceive the presence of the soul in the heart where it dwells, we can always apprehend its existence by the consciousness which emanates from it. Sometimes the sun is hidden by clouds, but we know that it is daylight, because if the solar globe is not visible, the light emanating from it is always present. We know that the sun has risen as soon as dawn breaks a faint light. The principle is the same for the soul: since a consciousness animates all bodies, human or animal, it must be present in everyone. The consciousness of the distinct soul, however, differs from that of God, in the sense that the latter is supreme and possesses integral knowledge of the past, present and future. The consciousness of the tiny being, on the contrary, is limited, subject to oblivion. Now, when he forgets his true nature, God, who does not have this weakness, instructs him, enlightens him by his teaching.
“The Supreme Soul (the Supreme Eternal) and the infinitesimal soul (we) are both on the same tree, the body of the animated being, more precisely in his heart. He who has freed himself from all material desire and who no longer knows lamentation can alone understand, by the grace of the Supreme Lord, the glories of the soul.”
Krishna is the source of the Supreme Soul, and everyone of us is the infinitesimal soul, oblivious of its true nature. The embodied spiritual being therefore needs to be enlightened by the teachings of the Lord or his qualified representative, the spiritual master, to know the truth.