Anyone firmly determined to realize their spiritual self and able to tolerate the onslaughts of both unhappiness and happiness is ready to achieve liberation. No obstacle can stop someone truly desirous of perfecting their life.
We can perfect our lives by learning to tolerate the difficulties of this life and in the next by returning to a world free of suffering, I call it the spiritual world.
Those who commit evil, whatever form it takes, suffer the perverse effects of their own sinful actions, which they retain inscribed in their spiritual essence, like a stain, the resulting trace of their wickedness.
It is not by reciting one's sins to the priests, by immersing oneself in so-called “sacred” water, by making libations, or by going to a holy place of pilgrimage without seeking to meet the sages there, that our faults or sins will be erased. This is false, for those who say this are liars.
There is only one way to erase our sins and remain pure: to renounce materialism, sense pleasures, selfish actions, and the fruits of our actions; to act only for Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and to offer everything to Him.
It is also essential that we surrender ourselves completely to God, reject evil in all its forms, and firmly resolve to obey the Lord, do His divine will, and serve Him with love and devotion. Then our sufferings and sins will disappear.
Let us act for God, be His eternal servants, return to our original spiritual position, offer to the Lord all our actions and all the fruits that flow from them, as well as our very existence and lives. Then we will live in purity, for our thoughts, words, and actions will no longer produce any effects. Lord Krishna will then give us true freedom, absolute peace and true permanent and endless happiness.
Who are we really, what is our connection to God, why did we come into existence, and why did God place us in the material universe?
Because each of us is a spiritual spark, a spiritual soul, an integral part and tiny fragment of Krishna, God, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we too possess within us a portion of this blissful energy. The Lord's blissful energy or power is present in every spiritual being that each of us is.
The Lord Himself teaches us that the dazzling radiance emanating from His supreme and absolute body is an emanation of His spiritual energy or internal power; therefore, we possess within us a tiny portion of this beautiful energy, because we are a tiny fraction of His sublime Person.
In truth, the individual and distinct spiritual souls of God, which each of us is, are spiritual atoms also called spiritual sparks, minute eternal fragments, minute eternal particles, integral parts of Krishna, God, the Supreme Personality, infinitesimal components of this radiance, this dazzling radiance, this absolute light.