In truth, it is the interests of the soul that must be sought, not that of the body.
He who accumulates goods in this material world, such as wealth, land, houses, relationships, power, friends and children, never owns them except for a time. No one can forever keep all these illusory treasures, creations of the illusory energy of the Lord, which are so many factors leading astray on the path of spiritual realization.
To be able to truly realize the permanent character of the spiritual existence, we must voluntarily learn to be self-sufficient with the minimum so that we can meet all our needs without difficulty. By avoiding creating artificial needs, humans will more easily be able to satisfy themselves with the minimum.
Whoever bases his life on the principles of a soul-oriented civilization, or in other words, who adopts the path of devotional service, is then able to access to the kingdom of God and thus to attain the highest perfection of existence. He will thus live eternally on the level of the soul, with a perfect knowledge of the service of absolute love offered to the Lord. It is therefore by sacrificing his vast material possessions for the benefit of this civilization of the soul, that the holy being qualifies to access the kingdom of God, in comparison with which the paradisiacal kingdom of our galaxy appears insignificant. Anyone who receives the special favor of the Supreme Person for having surrendered entirely in the service of love and devotion offered to his Divine Person, will be able to cross the impassable ocean of illusion and realize the Lord.
Only he who surrenders himself to the Lord can enter the kingdom of God. One must stop wasting one's energy in vainly following the path of materialistic experimental knowledge.
Surrender to the Lord and serve him with love and devotion, that is what confers true knowledge. The Lord is without limits, and by his internal power, He helps the submissive soul to know Him according to its abandonment.
Lord Krishna said : As they surrender themselves to Me, in proportion I reward them
Whatever material body it resides in, the soul is the same.
As pure spirits, all spiritual souls are equal and identical, whether they reside in the body of a celestial being, a human being, an animal or a plant.
Those who are truly enlightened do not see the outward appearance of the living being [the body of matter] whether it is a celestial being, an inhabitant of the paradisiacal planets, of a human being, an animal or a plant.
Those who are really enlightened by pure divine knowledge no longer see the body of white, black, yellow, red, mestizo matter, or the animal or vegetable material form, but only the spiritual entity that is there. From then on they feel an equal love for all human beings without exception. They go further still, because in all the bodies of