But in uniting ourselves again to the Supreme Lord, surrendering ourselves totally to Him and serving Him with love and devotion, we renew this bond, and thus rediscover our original and eternal position.
The Supreme Lord says:
“When your mind is no longer distracted by the flowery language of the Vedas (the original scriptures) when it is absorbed in spiritual realization, then you will be in union with the Divine Being.”
“Of all (the virtuous beings), superior is the wise one with the perfect knowledge, that the service of pure devotion unites to Me. I am very dear to him, as he is also very dear to me.”
The ultimate goal of existence is to surrender to Krishna, God, the Supreme Person. Abandonment arises from love, from a purely transcendental love. Where strength is exercised, there can be no freedom, and therefore no love either. If a mother loves her child, it is not under duress, nor does she hope to get any salary or remuneration.
We can love the Supreme Lord in many ways, as a teacher, friend, child or husband. There are indeed five feelings of love or fundamental exchanges, by which we are eternally bound to God. And when we reach the stage of liberation that comes from pure knowing, we become able to identify the particular relationship that unites us to the Lord. This level is that of authentic spiritual realization. We are all bound to God by an eternal relationship, whether it is a servant-to-master relationship, friend-to-friend, parent-child, spouse-to-spouse, or lover-to-lover. These relationships are forever present, and the whole process of spiritual realization as well as the perfection of yoga (yoga = practice of union or communion with God) is to revive our awareness of this relationship. At present, our relationship with the Supreme Lord is only distorted in the context of the material universe. In this world, the bond that unites the master and the servant rests entirely on money, strength, or exploitation; there is no question of service based on love. Therefore, this type of denatured relationship only continues as long as the master pays the servant. As soon as he stops paying, the relationship also stops. The table is similar between friends; at the slightest inconvenience, friendship breaks down, and friends become enemies. In the same way, when the parents' opinion differs from that of the child, the child leaves the family home, and their links are broken. And what about the spouses, the smallest altercation is divorce.
No relationship in this world has real substance, and none is eternal. We must always remember that these ephemeral relationships are only poor imitations of the eternal relationship that unites us to God, the Supreme Person. We know that the reflected image of an object in a mirror has no reality; it may seem real, but when we approach to touch it, our hand meets only the glass of ice. We must, therefore, gain access to this understanding that the bonds that bind us to our friends, parents, children, teachers, servants, spouse, or lover are all pale reflections of the relationship we