You sleep in this world; wake up and make the most of your human existence. Sleep implies the loss of all consciousness. What is night for all beings becomes, for the human being who has mastered his senses, the time of awakening. Even on the higher, heavenly planets, all beings living there are under the spell of the illusory energy, maya.

No one is truly interested in the real values ​​of life. Deep sleep, which is called “the time factor,” keeps the soul conditioned in ignorance, so that its pure consciousness is lost.

The Lord advises us to always think of Him, and thus to bring Him into our minds. God advises us to practice yoga, the method of bonding with Him. Perfect yoga consists of always thinking of Krishna, God, the Supreme Personality, constantly absorbing ourselves in His devotional service, always worshiping Him, and constantly offering Him homage. Unless we practice this yoga, we cannot break the illusory attachment we feel for the miserable body, which serves as our garment. The perfection of yoga (yoga = path of union and communion with God) consists in renouncing all attachment to the body and to what is connected with it and in transferring our affection to Krishna. We are very attached to material pleasures, but when we transfer this same attachment to Krishna, God, we advance on the path of liberation. This is the only yoga that must be practiced.

This is how to free oneself from the bondage of matter and the shackles of material existence.

The age of discord, quarrels, hypocrisy, and sin—the present age—is marred by an infinite number of defects. In short, it is a veritable ocean of defects, but it nevertheless has one advantage: one need only recite or chant the holy names of God;

Hare Krishna, hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, hare hare

Hare Rama, hare Rama, Rama Rama, hare hare

So that the defilement of this dark age may disappear within us, allowing us to regain our original spiritual bodies and return to God, our true home in His eternal kingdom.

When Krishna appeared, He made known His instructions and inaugurated the era of chanting His holy names for the benefit of all living beings. It is further said that this era will continue for ten thousand years. This means that simply by chanting the Hare Krishna hymn, the fallen souls of this sinful age will be delivered. The sinful age began just after the Lord's departure 5,000 years ago and has continued for 432,000 years, of which only 5,000 have passed. Therefore, 427,000 years remain. And of these 427,000 years, the 10,000 years inaugurated by Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu the Golden Avatar 500 years ago provide the fallen souls of this dark age with the opportunity to regain Krishna consciousness and chant the Hare Krishna hymn. Thus, they can be liberated from the clutches of material existence and return to their original home with Godhead.