The simplest path to attaining spiritual perfection is to seek refuge with a true spiritual master and serve him with all your heart and soul, for he knows God and has seen the truth.

The Lord says to this effect: Seek to know the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire of him submissively and while serving him. The realized soul will reveal knowledge to you, for he has seen the truth.

This is the secret of success.

What are the two periods when the soul is plunged into deep sleep, or into total unconsciousness?

When the galaxy is annihilated, beings are plunged into a state of dream or unconsciousness.

When the material world is awake and animated, they experience a kind of dream, a waking dream.

When they sleep, they dream there too. And during their unconsciousness during the period of annihilation, when the material galaxy is in an unmanifest state, they enter another form of dream.

Thus, whatever their condition in this material world, they are all in a dream state. In the spiritual world, on the contrary, everything is awake.

When they sleep, they are still dreaming. And during their unconsciousness during the period of annihilation, when this material universe is in an unmanifest state, they enter another form of dream. Thus, whatever their condition in this material world, they are all in a dream state.

In the spiritual world, on the contrary, everything is awake.

The state of sleep and unconsciousness into which the soul is plunged immediately after the partial or total destruction of the galaxy is wrongly considered by some philosophers of lesser intelligence to be the ultimate stage of existence. And after the total destruction of the material galaxy, this state continues for several million years.

But when creation is re-manifested by God, the spiritual being is awakened and returns to its new activity at the level it left off at during its last incarnation.

When the soul leaves its body upon the latter's death, it is put into a state of sleep and then undergoes a period of unconsciousness.

There is another period of unconsciousness, the one following the end of life, which humans call “death.” This period only concerns the gross material body and not the soul, for the latter is immortal.