the highest of all spiritual activities, is both sublime and easy. It is at the same time sublime for the pure servants of Krishna, animated by the earnest desire to enter into contact with the Supreme Lord, and easy for the neophytes, those still on the threshold of the palace of devotion to the Lord. Knowing how to enter into contact with God, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, or Sri Krsna, is a great science, and it is accessible to all -sudras, vaisyas, women, even to beings known as low birth, even inferior to the sudras. A fortiori it will suit the highly evolved men, skilled spiritual guides or great holy and realized kings. As for the noble practices of sacrifice, of charity, of austerity, they represent so many corollaries to the pure science of devotion.
The principles of knowledge and detachment are two important factors in the path of spiritual realization. The development of spirituality brings with it a perfect knowledge of all material and spiritual things, and the effects of such knowledge are manifested by detachment from the world of matter and attachment to spiritual activities. Indeed, to detach oneself from material things does not mean to cease all activity, as is believed by the ignorant. Naiskarma consists rather in renouncing any activity that produces material consequences, good or bad. Negation does not imply a challenge to any positive point of view. The rejection of the non-essential does not imply at the same time that of the essential. Similarly, the detachment of material forms can not imply the negation of the positive, spiritual form which the bhakti has for its object to realize; That one realizes it, and one thus rejects all the negative forms. Consequently, with the development of the bhakti-positive engagement in the service of the positive form-we naturally detach ourselves from the lower objects in order to attach ourselves to the higher values. Thus, the practice of bhakti, because it is the supreme occupancy, tears the being from the pleasures of the senses. And this is what makes the mark of pure bhakta. He is not foolish, and does not lose his spirits, nor become enmeshed in the lower energies or attach himself to material values. On the other hand, this knowledge can not be attained by some sterile reasoning, for it is in fact accessible only by the grace of the Almighty. Let us conclude by saying that the pure bhakta possesses all the qualities-knowledge, detachment, or renunciation, but one who possesses only knowledge or renunciation does not necessarily master the principles of bhakti. The bhakti, therefore, constitutes for man the supreme occupation.
The servants of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person.
Beings belong to the conditioned state only by their rebellion against the Lord. Those who rise up against the supremacy of the Lord are called "asuras," or demonic beings,