The Words of God
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realization, and not the pursuit of pleasure for the senses. This path of austerity was established at the very beginning of creation, when God inspired Brahma, the first created being and supreme spiritual master of our galaxy, who adopted him in the first place. Only the path of austerity can fully benefit from human life, unlike the animal way of life of a sophisticated civilization. The animal knows nothing except the pleasure of the senses, for its only concern is to eat, drink, sleep, mate, defend itself and foolishly enjoy life. Human beings are made to observe austerity and thus return to God, to their original abode in the kingdom of the Supreme Lord.

We can distinguish two kinds of austerity.

One aims for the pleasure of the senses, and the other, for spiritual realization.

Many so-called spiritualists or transcendentalists thus indulge in harsh austerities, but for a self-serving purpose, while others seek, by their asceticism, to satisfy the senses of the Lord.

The Lord desires that each of them its integral parts (what each of us is) returns to his divine realm to enjoy there eternally a blissful existence. This is the true meaning of the creation of the material world.

As Brahma remained perplexed as to how to create manifestations of matter in the universe, he descended to the bottom of the waters to find out how and from what the lotus on which he stood was manifested; It was then that he heard the word austerity twice. When the disciple adopts the path of austerity, then it is for him a second birth. This second birth actually brings the disciple Brahma closer to his Supreme Spiritual Master, Krishna, to adopt the path of austerity, which he did. So Brahma received spiritual initiation from Lord Krishna. This is how Brahma became a devotee of the Lord, even before he could give the gigantic galaxy the Milky Way its normal configuration. It is therefore enough for holy beings to embark on the path of austerity so that they attain, like Brahma, perfection.

The Lord tells us that the highest of all the blessings that exist he offering as the fruit of all austerities lies in the revelation of his personal form.

The highest perfection of virtuosity consists in a personal perception of the abodes of the Lord, which can be attained by all those who adopt a submissive attitude towards the Lord by indulging themselves, on his divine directives, in very severe asceticism.

The highest perfection of existence is to know the Lord through a direct perception of his Person, which He grants by grace.

But the Lord declares that the highest perfection of learning is to know him, He and his home, without any illusion.

 

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