Dear mother, devotees who enjoy these divine perfections are never deprived of them; no weapon or even the passage of time can destroy them. Because My devotees see in Me their friend, their relative, their son, their preceptor, their benefactor and their supreme divinity, they cannot at any time be separated from what they possess.

Thus, worshipping Me, the omnipresent Lord of the universe, through unwavering devotional service, the devotee renounces all desire to reach the heavenly planets or to be happy in this world, with wealth, children, cattle, house or any other object related to the body. Such a one I take beyond birth and death.

He who seeks refuge elsewhere than in Me can never get rid of the terrible fear of death and rebirth, for I am the almighty Lord, the original source of all creation, and the Super soul, the Soul of all souls.

It is because of My supremacy, out of fear of Me, that the wind blows. Out of fear of Me, the sun shines and Indra, the master of clouds, sends down rain. Out of fear of Me, fire burns and death goes, taking its due.

Spiritualists enriched with spiritual knowledge and renunciation, and absorbed in devotional service for their eternal benefit, seek shelter at My lotus feet; and since I am the Lord, they qualify to enter My divine kingdom without any fear.

Therefore, men whose thoughts are fixed on the Lord practice devotional service intensively. This is the only way to attain the ultimate perfection of existence.

The Origin of the Constituents of Material Creation.

Lord Kapila continues:

O Mother, I shall now describe to you the various divisions of the Absolute Truth; knowing them, every man is free from the influence of the three gunas.

Knowledge is the ultimate perfection of spiritual realization. And I shall explain to you that knowledge, by which the knots of attachment to the material universe are cut.

The Supreme Lord is the Supreme Soul, and His existence is beginningless. He transcends the three gunas and lives beyond the material universe. He can be perceived everywhere, for He radiates His own light, and by His own effulgence He sustains the entire creation.

As a pastime, this same Supreme Lord, the greatest of the great, assumes the manifestation of the subtle material energy, which is covered by the three gunas and which remains linked with Visnu.

Diversified by the effect of its three attributes, the material nature generates the forms of living beings, who, seeing this, fall under the influence of the illusory energy which veils their knowledge.