The Pure Spiritual Science
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themselves from any material attachment, and that thus bound, they cannot conceive of spiritual freedom. However, one should not be infatuated with having left one's home or having founded another in holy pilgrimages, whether legal or not. Many people who give up their homes and go to holy places, but who because of bad relationships, establish illicit relationships with the opposite sex and fall again in family life. So powerful the illusory material energy that it is able to exert its charm at all stages of existence, even if we had renounced the happiness of the home.

It is therefore essential to practice self-control by celibacy, excluding the slightest sexual desire. To tell the truth, for those who aspire to perfect their existence, sex life is synonymous with suicide, or worse. To give up family life is therefore to master all forms of desires relating to the pleasure of the senses, and in particular sexual desires. To achieve this, one must settle in a sacred place, on a straw mat covered with deer skin, then with a cloth, and recite the Holy Name of the Lord without committing any offense. In other words, it is about wresting the mind from material concerns and fixing it on the Lord. Only this path, simple moreover, can lead us to the highest stage of spiritual perfection.

The highest perfection of man is to remember the Supreme Lord at the end of his life. In other words, you have to shape your existence in such a way that the memory of the Supreme Lord gradually marks each stage of your life.

It is identification with its body, which involves the soul in conditioning by matter and in enslavement to material existence.

The introverted material ego (identification with the body) is thus transformed into three aspects, namely virtue, passion and ignorance, which in turn produce the triple manifestation of the powers that generate matter, of knowledge relating to creations. and the intelligence that guides these material activities.

The material ego or the feeling which pushes the soul to identify with matter, is roughly centered on itself, deprived of any precise knowledge of the existent of God. This introverted selfishness of materialistic beings is at the very source of their conditioning by all that surrounds them, and perpetuates their enslavement to material existence. The introverted impersonalist, without any precise notion of the Supreme Person, concludes by himself that the Lord manifests a material form from his spiritual existence, originally impersonal, in order to accomplish a particular mission. The impersonalist persists in this deceptive conception of the Supreme Lord. His ignorance of the personal aspect of the Lord comes from the ignorance that arises

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