When this ignorance dissipates, material desires become irrelevant. Desires remain, but turn into spiritual desires. We then perceive the Supreme Being, the Supreme Soul and the Sovereign Lord as a single reality. This higher perception is only possible when our mind and senses are spiritualized, a stage impossible to reach all at once. Those who seek to achieve the impossible are unreasonable and overly ambitious. Each person should proceed gradually, making sure their foot is on firm ground before lifting the other foot. So we will finally reach the goal.
To surrender to God, to serve him with love and devotion and to sing his glories and his Holy Name, allows to spiritualize our mind and our senses.
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The Supreme Eternal says: “Those who have the vision of eternity can see that the soul is spiritual, eternal, beyond the three gunas (modes of influence of nature material; virtue, passion and ignorance). Although located in the body of matter, the soul never acts, nor is it bound.
Because the body is born, the incarnate spiritual being who inhabits it also seems to be born, but it is in fact eternal; it transcends matter and remains immortal, unborn, although located in the body. It remains, by nature, full of bliss. It cannot therefore be destroyed. He never gets involved in material activities; consequently, the acts engendered by his contact with the bodies of matter which he covers do not really bind him.”
The Supreme Eternal says: “He who can see that it is the body, born of the material nature, which performs all action, that the soul, interior, never acts, this one in truth sees”.
The body is formed by the material nature, under the direction of the Soul Supreme, and no activity belongs to the being itself. Whatever he does, or is supposed to do, for his happiness or his misfortune, the being is constrained to do so by his bodily constitution; and the real me remains outside of all these physical activities. The body is obtained according to the past desires of the being, to satisfy them. And the being will act according to the body that he clothes. So to speak, the body is a machine, designed by the Supreme Lord to satisfy the desires of the conditioned being, desires which are at the very source of the difficulties it encounters, in pleasure as in suffering. This spiritual vision of the being allows, when it is developed, to detach oneself from the activities of the body, and the one who possesses it sees things in their right relief.