It is only possible to know the Supreme Eternal, as He is, by the service of love and devotion offered to His Person, or by his devotees, who always carry him in their hearts. Devotional perfection makes it possible to understand that impersonal radiance is only a partial representation of the Supreme Lord, and that the three manifestations of material creation are its full emanations.
In the spiritual world, which the radiance from the Lord’s body illuminates on all sides, there is no change in age. Indeed, the phenomenon of creation does not exist on spiritual planets, and time does not exist there either. The rays which emanate from the spiritual and absolute body of the Lord and which make up the limitless radiance are in no way influenced by material energy. In this world also, the Lord in person is the initial creator, because it is He who created Brahma the demiurge and first living being, by conferring on the latter the power which will allow him to carry out the subsequent creations.
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The Lord fulfills the desires of all beings according to their respective wishes. As for the holy beings, they aspire to the absolute service of the Lord.
The Lord embodies the one desire of holy beings or pure souls, and the service of love and devotion offered to God, being free from all impurity, represents the only way by which one reaches his favor.
The service of love and devotion thus accomplished has the power to confer on holy beings the highest of all benefits, direct contact with the Supreme Lord.
Devotional service is an enormous obligation on the Lord. Pure souls then experience a relentless happiness in contemplating the wonderful smiling face of the Lord and are animated by a new life. Then, seeing his devotees thus vivified, the Lord Himself sees his satisfaction growing.
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The highest degree of perfection in charity is to grant men immunity from the evils of material existence.
Now, this can only be accomplished by practicing the service of love and devotion offered to the Lord. Such knowledge is incomparable. Neither the study of the science of God, nor the accomplishment of sacrifices, nor a wide distribution of