Spiritual education makes it possible to cultivate and develop God consciousness, and gives humanity the true light of spiritual existence. It teaches that each of us is a spiritual soul and not the material body, and teaches us to surrender to God, to love Him, to obey Him, to reconnect with Him, and to serve Him with love and devotion. It gives the key to enter the kingdom of God.
In truth, all those who inhabit the material universe have voluntarily, freely, exposed themselves to the risk that the material condition represents. They cast themselves into the trap of the laws of material nature.
The purpose of human life is precisely to bring the incarnate spiritual being to know the causes of his conditioning, the only way to escape the clutches of material existence. The only way to leave this material slavery is to surrender to the will of God.
But the fool, rather than fleeing the grip of maya, the energy of illusion that is similar to Satan, get entangled in the different names in relation to what he believes his identity, intellectual, administrator, trader, worker, Hindu, Christian, Muslim, European, American, African, and in relation to this identity he develops in turn an attitude, a particular position, a behavior, and bows to the orders of the Supreme Lord only under the influence of the laws and writings relating to this identity.
The human laws of any state are but imperfect imitations of religious precepts. Secular and separate from God, the state allows citizens to violate divine laws, but strictly enjoins them to obey its own.
But the people suffer more if they neglect the laws of God and observe only human laws. For imperfect by nature, in whatever form of material conditioning there is, man, even the most evolved, can only create imperfect legislation.
The laws of God contain no imperfection, and if they are instructed, what need do men have of relative legislation, created by expedient politicians, misled in every way. Human laws must always be modified, revised, but not those of God, since they come from the Divine Being, who possesses supreme perfection.
The scriptural laws cited above, are established by liberated souls, the pure representatives of God, with regard to the various conditions proper to each being. Adherence to these laws from the Lord gradually leads the conditioned soul to free itself from the clutches of material existence. Nevertheless, each one is, by his profound nature, an eternal servant of the Supreme Lord.
Thus, in the liberated state, he can serve the Lord in a sense of purely spiritual love, and thus enjoy an existence of perfect freedom, sometimes even in a position equal to, or even superior to, that of God.
In the conditioned state on the contrary, in the material universe under the influence of maya, the energy of illusion, each one desires to dominate all the other beings, spirit of domination which prolongs and weighs down his conditioning, until the day when he surrenders to the Lord and finds with Krishna his first condition of eternal servant.