The sages recommend a second, safe way, which is to absorb the mind in the service offered to the Sovereign Person, Krishna. Krishna, the Supreme Lord, also stresses the importance of this direct method. The mind thus purified, spiritualized, it is necessary to engage without waiting in the service of absolute love offered to the Lord through the various devotional activities such as listening, singing, etc. Even a man with a turbulent mind will be sure to progress if he takes this path under the guidance of a qualified guide. Then meditate on the various parts of the Visnu Body (Krishna), one after the other, without losing sight of its entire form. Thus, our mind will detach from the sense objects. Let us not carry our thoughts anywhere else, for the Supreme Lord, Visnu, embodies the Supreme Truth; in Him alone the mind will find the perfect union. The mind is constantly troubled by passion and misled by ignorance. But it is possible to remedy this evil: by connecting everything to Visnu (Krishna), the impurities coming from material influences are dissolved, which makes it possible to find inner appeasement.

The wheel of material existence.

The material mind covering the soul takes it from one life form to another. This is called the wheel of material existence.

The activities of the mind under the influence of material nature are the cause of happiness and unhappiness in this world. Blinded by illusion, the soul eternally pursues its existence conditioned by matter under different names. We qualify those who find themselves in this situation, to be eternally conditioned. In short, the mind is at the origin of conditioned existence. This is why the practice of union with God as a whole aims to ensure mastery of the mind and the senses. Once the mind is mastered, the senses are automatically mastered, and the soul is saved from the consequences of virtuous or ungodly action. If the mind is placed at the feet of Lord Krishna, the senses will be automatically employed in his service; and when he absorbs his mind and his senses in the service of love and devotion which he offers to God, the individual being naturally becomes aware of Him. Whoever meditates on Krishna becomes a perfect transcendentalist spiritualist.

The mind is conditioned by material nature and given its great power, it covers the individual soul and immerses it in the waves of material existence. When the mind and the senses are purified, all of existence is purified, and one is freed from all material designation. We stop considering ourselves as a human being, a celestial being, an animal, a Christian, a Muslim, an African or a French. When the senses and the mind are purified and when one is fully absorbed in the service of Krishna, one