Logos 207
What is the source of our suffering?
Unbelievers have to undergo various material tribulations due to their tendency to commit reprehensible self-serving acts. Under the influence of ignorance, (of the absence of data relating to God and absolute truth) the desire to sin persists in their hearts.
Sinful reactions usually manifest themselves in four phases; some are ready to bear fruit, some are in seed form, some are as yet unmanifest, and the last are already in process. These sinful acts can be divided into two groups. The first group designates the faults for which we are suffering now, while the second refers to those for which we will have to suffer later. Thus, when the seed of the consequences of our faults has not yet borne fruit, they are said to be pending. These seeds of sin remain imperceptible, but they are innumerable, and no one can determine when they first appeared. It is because of these unclean seeds that have already borne fruit that a person is born into a low-income family or endures various other ailments.
However, when one adopts the devotional service offered to God, all the phases of the sinful life are destroyed. Devotional service negates all the consequences of a sinful existence; all reactions due to our faults. When devotional service dwells in a person's heart, there is no longer a place for any desire to do wrong. The sinful life results from ignorance, that is, from forgetting our natural and eternal position as a servant (servant) of God; but as soon as a person becomes fully aware of God, he realizes that he is the eternal servant (handmaid) of Krishna, God.
Logos 208
The Lord says: “He who attains the level At the same time, spiritual knows who the Supreme Spiritual Being is and finds there infinite joy. He never grieves, he never longs for anything; he also shows himself to be disposed towards all beings. He then obtains to serve Me with pure love and devotion.”
Devotional service corresponds to true liberation. When a man is attracted to the beauty of the Sovereign Person and his thoughts are constantly drawn to Him, he loses interest in matters which do not favor his spiritual development. In other words, material action is no longer attractive to him.
The individual soul establishes itself at the level of spiritual existence, all of bliss, when it fully realizes that its happiness depends of its spiritual realization, the very foundation of bliss, and when it is absorbed for eternity in the service of the Lord, who has no one above Him.