illusion, into a spiritual and absolute consciousness. To find this absolute consciousness of Krsna, to absorb its mind, is the true meditation. Every act performed in this consciousness is a sacrifice offered to the Absolute, the Supreme Person, and the author, the offering, the consummation, the officiant, and the fruits of sacrifice, become one in the Absolute, The Supreme Spiritual Being. This is the way of Krsna consciousness.
The words of God are the most precious of all the revealed Scriptures. But some, closer to the animal than to man, have no faith in the Scriptures and no knowledge of the principles they reveal. Sometimes they even know of it, but they are able to quote passages from it. Indeed, they do not give these teachings any validity. Or else they have faith in the Scriptures, in the science of God, for example, but do not recognize or worship God, Sri Krsna. So there is none among them who succeeds in following the principles of Krsna consciousness to the end, if he adopts them one day. All will have to return to material life.
Those who continually question the Scriptures will never make any spiritual progress. As for those who reject God and His teaching, they will find happiness neither in this life nor in others. They will experience no real joy, even a small one. To fully benefit from the Scriptures, one must follow their principles with faith, and thereby rise to pure knowledge, which alone can raise us to the spiritual consciousness. In other words, those who doubt the Scriptures can not make a single step toward spiritual liberation. To reach it, there is no alternative but to walk in the footsteps of the great authentic spiritual masters.
Here are the two forms of sacrifice that allow us to develop the spiritual realization and the consciousness of God:
The abandonment of all material possessions and the purely spiritual deepening of the true self.