through the unmotivated mercy of God. It is through the grace of this energy that one can achieve spiritual enlightenment. This acts on the living being who surrenders completely to the Lord and accepts his position as an eternal servant. The fact of placing oneself at the disposal of the Supreme Lord, of being ready to do his will; it is then that He is revealed to us little by little by spiritual energy. When the individual being distinct from God sees himself truly revived by spiritual energy, all his senses become purified, and he devotes himself exclusively to the service of the Lord. Thus illuminated, the holy being has no more material activities; nor does he have the slightest desire to engage in such activities. This way by which the distinct being purifies his senses and uses them in the service of the Lord is none other than the service of devotion.
Even though a man seems to stay awake all day long, until he has developed a spiritual sight within himself, he is really just sleeping. As long as he does not come to act in full spiritual light, he is considered to be continually asleep. After having spent countless lifetimes indulging in harsh austerities to obtain knowledge, man accesses real knowledge and attains real wisdom when he surrenders himself to God, the Supreme Person. Thus, the holy being who has come to perfect knowledge cannot, at any time, forget what he owes to the Lord.
Wake up and resist “Maya”, the energy of illusion of the Lord, who is related to Satan.
Under the influence of material energy, beings embodied and conditioned by matter become entangled in a thousand difficulties for the sole purpose of tasting a derisory material happiness. They engage in self-directed action without knowing its implications, effects and consequences. Animated by the mistaken sense of being the body in which they reside, conditioned beings foolishly surround themselves with countless attachments, all of them illusory. They believe that they can live perpetually in this material environment. This gross mistake exercises such a hold over them that they suffer continually, life after life, prisoners of the external energy of the Lord, in his aspect of energy of illusion, who thus seeks to force beings to turn to the Supreme Lord, so that they end up obeying Him and doing His divine will.
Let us all realize that all bodily conceptions of pleasure are only products of illusory energy and realize that everything in this world is only the creation of material energy in its aspect of illusory energy. Also, if somehow we become aware of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, no matter what our initial motives are, we will eventually realize the truth as it is, by the grace of the Lord. We will then lose all interest in material pleasures.
It is only given to holy beings, devotees of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, to attain the perfection of existence.
When to one who takes only the first steps on the path of devotional service and who, without being yet ripe, falls from his position, he is nevertheless superior to the human being who consecrates himself entirely to the self-serving acts of this world.