As long as a living being does not inquire into the spiritual values ​​of existence, he must experience defeat and the evils resulting from ignorance. Whether it is due to virtue or sin, karma (the law of self-interested action, the law of action-reaction, the law of cause and effect) bears fruit, and if a person is involved in any form of karma, his mind is said to be “tainted with the desire to enjoy the fruits of action.”

As long as the mind remains impure, consciousness remains obscured, and as long as one follows the path of self-interested action, one must assume a material body.

When the influence of ignorance covers the distinct soul, it cannot know the nature of the infinitesimal being, nor that of the Supreme Being. Its mind is then preoccupied with self-interested action. Therefore, unless she develops her love for Lord Vasudeva, who is none other than myself, she is certainly not free from successive reincarnations.

However wise and learned a man may be, he will be said to be suffering from madness if he does not understand that efforts to gratify his senses are merely a waste of time. Forgetting his own interest, he seeks happiness in this world and centers all his attachments on domestic life, which is centered on sexual relations and subjects him to all kinds of material suffering. As such, he is little better than a stupid animal.

The attraction between male and female constitutes the fundamental principle of material existence.

Based on this erroneous concept that binds hearts, the being (the incarnate spiritual being) develops an attraction to his body, his home, his land, his children, his loved ones, and his material possessions. He thus increases his illusions, until he thinks only in terms of “me” and “mine.”

When the strong knot formed in the heart of a being chained to material existence by the consequences of his past actions is loosened, he loses his attachment to his home, his wife, and his children. He thus rejects the fundamental principle of illusion based on the concepts of “me” and “mine,” and becomes liberated. He then returns to the spiritual world.

My dear sons, you should approach a paramahamsa, a being highly advanced in spirituality, and accept him as your spiritual master, thus placing your faith and love in me, the Supreme Lord.

You should hate material enjoyment and tolerate the duality of joys and sorrows, comparable to the seasonal changes between winter and summer.