faith and conviction. Whoever, taking into account the perfect competence of God and the Vedas, the original holy scriptures, accepts this truth, without getting lost in vain philosophical speculations, will attain perfect liberation. This is a certainty.
Q Whoever recognizes Krishna as the Absolute, and says to Him: “You are this same Supreme Spiritual Being, God, the Absolute Person”, immediately cuts the bonds who hold him back to matter and see his return to God assured. In other words, he who dedicates himself to the Lord with ardent devotion attains perfection. One can completely free oneself from the chain of the cycle of repeated deaths and rebirths, for that it is enough to know Krishna, God, the Supreme Person. There is no alternative. Anyone who does not understand that Krishna is God remains a prisoner of ignorance. Man must therefore, by faith and knowledge, revive Krishna consciousness in his heart, and thus attain perfection. Only action performed in Krishna consciousness or God consciousness can put an end to material existence.
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We must escape these three forms of material attachment:
1. lack of spirituality,
2. fear of having an eternal identity, and
3. the idea of nothingness, underlying the frustrations of material life
We will achieve this by taking refuge with the Lord, by following a spiritual master who is an authentic servant of God, and by respecting the regulatory principles of devotional service. This spiritual life will ultimately lead us to the sublime love of God. We must first of all be earnest to attain spiritual realization; it will inspire us to seek the company of spiritually elevated people. We must then begin the practice of the service of love and devotion that we will dedicate to the Lord. This practice frees us from all material attachment, strengthens our progress in spiritual realization and increases our enjoyment of hearing about Lord Krishna, the Absolute Person, from which arises a deep attachment for the consciousness of God; attachment which matures in love for God, the first degree of pure love of God, which is the highest perfection of life.
As soon as the pure love of God is known, one serves the Lord with constancy, with infinite love, and it is thus by following the gradual process of devotional service that one can attain the highest spirituality, free from all attachment to material goods, free from the fear of being an eternally separate soul, and free from the frustrations that nihilism engenders. It is at this moment, and only thus, that one will be able to join the Supreme Lord in his eternal abode.