We must rise to the spiritual and absolute level, otherwise the mission of our existence will remain forever unfulfilled.

For having forgotten God, the incarnated spiritual being is bound to matter and to a specific material body by the laws of material nature. Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, can alone deliver him from this.

The incarnated spiritual being is born in ignorance of the data relating to God, to his true identity, and to the existential and absolute truth. He is unaware of the true purpose of existence, which is to seek God, to find Him, for the Lord does not hide Himself, and finally to go and find Him in His infinite and absolute kingdom.

The illustration of this truth is provided by Jesus in these words: I stood in the midst of the world and manifested myself to them in the flesh. I found them all drunk. I found no one among them thirsty, and my soul suffered for the sons of men, because they are blind in their hearts and do not see that they came into the world empty, and are even trying to leave empty, but behold, now they are drunk. When they have rejected their wine, then they will change their mentality.

Drunkenness here is the unbridled pursuit of self-interested material desires and the over-exploitation of sense pleasures, of which concupiscence is the major element. It is preferring materialism and the ephemeral joys associated with it to saving spirituality.

The word “emptiness” means to be immersed in ignorance of all knowledge. In the sense of Jesus, it means to be born in ignorance of absolute truth, and to be prepared to die just as ignorant as at birth.

In truth, nothing can happen or occur without the consent of the Supreme Eternal, without His will.

The foolish believe that they are the cause of their social ascension, wealth, power, and might, and are unaware that they owe it all to the Lord. In the material universe, everything happens under the influence of time and the combined action of material nature, which act under the direction or authority of God.

Those who are truly aware of the existential truth, neither rejoice nor lament, whatever the circumstances. For the wise man who sees how the events of life occur, there is no question of being sorry or happy because of the actions of material nature, he remains calm, for he knows that God protects him and watches over him.