Whoever aspires to such perfection will have to seek the mercy of the Lord, for there is no other recourse. Seeking knowledge by relying on your own efforts is just a waste of time.

Logos 113

Human beings must establish themselves at the spiritual and absolute level, where neither time nor material energy exert their influence.

In the condition conditioned by matter, the incarnate spiritual being subjected to the action of time lives in a dream made up of past, present and future. Devotees of intellectual speculation try to overcome the influence of time by imagining themselves to be the Supreme Lord, by simply cultivating knowledge and subduing the ego. However, this process is imperfect.

The perfect way is to recognize God as the supreme reality of all that is, and the highest perfection of knowledge is to surrender to Him, knowing that He is the source and origin of everything. Only such a level of consciousness will free us from the false concepts of “je” and “mine”, which immerse the being in the forgetfulness of its true identity and will allow us to know that we are , in truth, spiritual entities, spiritual souls.

Logos 114

In truth, at the end of old age, the soul transmigrates into a new body determined by the acts that it will have accomplished during its life.

It is indeed the spiritual soul which creates its own body by the force of its personal desires. The Lord’s external energy, material nature, only provides him with the particular material envelope by which his desires can be fully satisfied. The tiger, for example, during his previous existence had certainly wanted to revel in the blood of other animals, and by the mercy of the Lord, he sees himself today endowed with material energy, of a body which corresponds to his bloodthirsty desires. Likewise, one who wishes to obtain a celestial body, on a higher planet, will also be granted by the mercy of the Lord. As for those who have the intelligence to desire a spiritual body which enables them to benefit from the companionship of the Lord, they too will have their desire fulfilled. Everyone can use as he sees fit the smallest amount of freedom that is rightfully his, and the Lord shows such benevolence that He will grant everyone the particular body to which he aspires.