is to commit them permanently to the service of the Lord. And the specific mark of all of God's children is precisely that they constantly engage their senses in the service of the Lord.
He who acts in this way gains to be purified, and it is only after purifying the senses that one can truly serve God. The Supreme Eternal can therefore be conquered by the devotee who gives himself to his sublime service of love.
Logos 250
The Supreme Eternal says: “We call a realized soul, the being to whom it is spiritual knowledge and the realization of that knowledge gives fullness. He has reached the spiritual level and has self-control. With an equal eye he sees the gold, the pebble and the clod of earth. Higher still, he who sees with an equal eye the indifferent, the impartial, the benefactor and the envious, the friend and the enemy, the virtuous and the sinner”.
No one can, by making use of senses contaminated by matter, understand the spiritual and absolute nature of the Name, Form, Attributes and Entertainments of God. They are revealed only to the man charged, by his service of devotion to the Lord, of spiritual energy. The science of God, that is to say the science which allows man to reach the consciousness of God, which simple erudition, material knowledge, could not do. To understand it, one must have the good fortune to come into contact with a person of pure conscience, who, filled by his service and devotion to God, has, by his grace, fully realized this knowledge. Spiritual knowledge keeps us unperturbed in our convictions, while academic knowledge leaves us baffled and confused in the face of so-called contradictions. One becomes perfect only after having passed from the intellectual knowledge of the texts to their realization.
Because he has abandoned himself to God, the being aware of his spiritual identity masters his senses. It is found at the spiritual level, for its knowledge has nothing in common with secular scholarship. The latter, like intellectual speculation, for some as precious as gold, has, in his eyes, no more value than a lump of earth or a stone.
Logos 251
Consciously or not, each of us engages in sinful activities. When we take water from a pitcher, we kill the germs in it. When we use a grinder, or eat food, we still kill many germs. When we sweep the ground, or light a fire, we still kill many germs of life. Walking down the street, we kill ants and other insects in large numbers. Consciously