These, animated by passion, are steeped in anxiety, and because their senses are not mastered, they constantly aspire to material pleasure. They venerate ancestors and work day and night to improve the economic situation of their family, their community or their nation.

These beings are called trai-vargikas, because their interest is in the three so-called paths of evolution. They oppose the Supreme Lord, who alone can relieve the conditioned souls, and show no interest in His Pastimes, which are worth hearing because they testify to His transcendent power.

The supreme will of God condemns these men. Because they reject the nectar of the Acts of the Supreme Lord, they are compared to pigs feeding on excrement. They renounce listening to the narrative of the spiritual and absolute Pastimes of the Lord, preferring instead the abominable actions of materialists.

These materialists obtain passage to the planet called Pitrloka by the path taken by the Sun in its southern course; but they then return to this planet, where they are reborn in their own family to resume the same self-interested actions from birth to the end of their life.

Thus, when the fruits of their acts of piety are exhausted, they fall from their position by the design of a higher will and return to earth, just as a person elevated to a high position sometimes falls suddenly.

My dear mother, I therefore advise you to seek shelter in the Supreme Lord, whose lotus feet are worthy of worship. Receive this instruction with love and devotion, for in this way you will be able to establish yourself in absolute devotional service.

By adopting Krishna consciousness and serving the Lord with devotion, one can progress in detachment and knowledge and in spiritual realization.

The mind of an advanced devotee remains balanced in the course of sensory activities and is beyond the pleasant as well as the unpleasant.

A pure devotee, through his spiritual intelligence, has equal vision and is free from all material contamination. He does not distinguish anything higher or lower, and he feels himself elevated to the absolute level where he attains qualitative equality with the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

The Supreme Personality of Godhead alone represents perfect spiritual and absolute knowledge; but according to different modes of understanding, He appears differently, either as the impersonal Brahman (the Impersonal Supreme Spiritual Being), or as the Paramatma (the Supersoul), and sometimes as the Supreme Personality of Godhead or the purusa Avatar (the Supreme Avatar).

The highest level of realization common to all spiritualists is total detachment from matter, which can be attained through different forms of yoga.