sure intelligence. By contemplating the objects of the senses, man becomes attached, from which arises lust, and from lust, anger. Anger calls for illusion, and illusion leads to memory loss. When memory goes astray, intelligence is lost, and man again falls into the ocean of material existence.

Whoever masters his senses by observing the regulating principles of freedom, receives from the Lord his full mercy, and is thus freed from all attachment as from all aversion”.

Logos 56

The blessed Lord says: “When a man frees himself from the thousands of material desires created by his mind, when he is satisfied in his true self, it is because he is fully aware of his spiritual identity.

The one that the three forms of suffering here below no longer affect (those caused by the body and the mind, those caused by other living beings, those caused by the elements of nature; hurricane, earthquakes, cold etc...), that the joys of life no longer intoxicate, that have left attachment, fear and anger, he is considered a wise man with a firm mind.

He who, free from all bond, does not rejoice more in happiness than he grieves over unhappiness, that one is firmly established in absolute knowledge.

Whoever, like a turtle that retracts its limbs at the bottom of its shell, can detach the senses from their objects, that one has real knowledge”.

Logos 57

The Supreme Lord says: “Free yourself from all material acts through devotional service, absorb yourself in him and do not seek to profit from the fruit of your acts. “Avares” those who aspire to the fruits of their actions.

Devotional service can, in this life, liberate those who engage in it from the consequences of the action, good or bad. Strive to achieve the art of acting in union with God. Absorbed in the service of love and devotion, the sage takes refuge in the Lord and, renouncing in this world the fruits of his acts, frees himself from the cycle of the dead and repeated rebirths. He thus arrives at the state which is beyond suffering.