at the highest spiritual level, the mind cuts itself off from all material reaction and establishes itself in its own glory, beyond any material conception of happiness and unhappiness. At this point, the spiritualist realizes the truth of his relationship with God, the Supreme Person. He discovers that the joys and sorrows attributed to his own being, like their interactions, are in fact the sole false ego, which is a product of ignorance.

Because it has regained its real identity, the perfectly realized soul is unaware of how the material body moves or acts, any more than a drunk man is really aware of being clothed or not. The Sovereign Lord himself now takes care of the body as well as the senses of a liberated spiritualist, so that his functions are maintained until his destiny is fulfilled. The liberated saint, who has awakened to his natural and eternal position and thus finds himself established in samadhi (spiritual ecstasy, spiritual bliss, constant meditation on Lord Krishna), the highest level of perfection of yoga, no longer sees the products of his material body as his own. He therefore considers the activities of this body to be manifestations of a dream. Out of deep affection for family and wealth, one will see a son or money as one's own, and out of affection for the material body, one will consider it in the same way. But in truth, just as one can understand that family and wealth are different from oneself, the liberated being knows that he is different from his body. The fire itself is distinguished from the flames, sparks, and smoke, although all of these remain intimately linked as they come from the same burning wood.

The Sovereign Lord, known as Param Brahman (the Supreme Person), is the real observer, and He is distinguished from the individual soul, which is united with the senses, the five elements and the consciousness.

The spiritualist must see in all manifestation a single soul, for everything that exists proceeds from the different energies of the Supreme Being. Thus the sage must see all beings with an equal eye, without any distinction. This is the realization of the Supreme Soul. Just as fire manifests itself in different kinds of wood, the purely spiritual soul, under different conditions created by the gunas (the three attributes or modes of influence of material nature; virtue, passion, ignorance) manifests itself in various bodies.

So the spiritualist can become a realized soul after having overcome the insurmountable spell of maya (The energy of illusion) which presents itself as both the cause and the effect of the material manifestation and which is therefore very difficult to understand.