The Lord teaches: “The doer of interested acts must be reborn and die in this world without end, and until he has developed his affection for Me, it will be impossible for him to shake the yoke of the laws of material nature.

The man of the first order is the one who finds refuge in Me, in the most total abandonment, and who, renouncing all forms of material occupations, lives according to My teaching”.

Thus, the man who dutifully fulfills his duties according to the social class and spiritual level to which he belongs, but who fails to develop his love for Krishna, God, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, only ruins his human life.

This is why the Lord recommends that we live according to His teaching, so that we are never lost or confused.

In truth, if Lord Krishna, God, the Supreme Personality of Godhead allows the incarnate soul that wants to stray to slip to the lowest point of existence, it is for the sole purpose of giving him the opportunity to judge by it-even if she may or may not be happy by misusing her independence.

Most souls embodied and conditioned by the material nature and the energy of illusion, who languish in the material universe, misuse their independence, so that they plunge into illusion and suffer life after life.

This is why the Lord advises us: «Surrender to Me, and I will take you under My protection».

Suffering is useful and necessary.

The sufferings related to guilty acts have a double origin: The acts themselves, but also those committed in previous lives.

The origin of the guilty acts is most often ignorance. But ignoring that an act is guilty does not prevent, if committed, its undesirable consequences, which give rise to other culpable acts. Thus faults and sufferings follow one another, plunging the conditioned soul into pain. In her present life she suffers the consequences of the acts committed in her previous life, and prepares herself, through her present acts, for new sufferings in the future.

Our past deeds overwhelm us today, and our present deeds prepare us for future suffering. But this chain can be broken at once for the one who adopts the consciousness of God and serves him with love and devotion. This means that the service of love and devotion offered to the Lord is capable of reducing our sins and all defilement to nothing.

Suffering is useful and necessary, because it allows by the pain felt, to know what generate the thoughts, words and malicious actions, and thus to take the firm resolution to never again do evil in any form whatsoever, to persons, humans, animals and plants.

Suffering is useful and necessary because it reduces the mass of guilty acts accumulated in all our previous lives, and erases the sins inherent in these malicious and even criminal acts.

Suffering is useful and necessary because it allows us to have a precise idea of the pain felt by the person to whom we have hurt in our previous life, being then indifferent to the cries that it emitted. It also allows us to know “that what we have done will be done to us”.

Suffering is useful and necessary, because it makes it possible to become aware of his malevolent acts, to do penance, to repent, to ask forgiveness, to turn to God, to respect and definitively apply the precepts, the laws and the divine commandments.