Logos 166

In truth, the embodied soul conditioned by matter remains as captive in the hands of material energy, and whatever it dictates to it, the conditioned soul accomplishes it.

The soul has no responsibility, it attends the action as a simple witness, but it is nevertheless forced to act in this way because of the offense of which it is guilty towards God within the framework of the eternal relationship that unites him to Him. This is why the Supreme Lord declares that maya, its material energy, is so powerful that it turns out to be insurmountable. However, it is enough that the soul realizes that its original, natural and eternal position consists in serving God, and that it strives to act according to this principle, so that it is immediately freed from the influence of Maya, and that, as conditioned as it was.

The Lord supports anyone who surrenders to Him in a feeling of helplessness, as a result of which the influence of Maya, or conditioned existence, vanishes. The spiritual soul is in fact eternal, full of knowledge and bliss. However, in the claws of Maya, she must suffer the sufferings of birth, illness, old age and death, and this, continuously. We must seriously apply ourselves to remedy this condition of existence and to develop our awareness of God. We will then be relieved of all our prolonged suffering, without difficulty. The suffering of the conditioned soul is due to its attachment to material nature. Let us transfer our attachment to God.

Logos 167

The Lord says: “Thus, adoring me through an unfailing service of devotion, I the omnipresent Lord of the universe, the holy being renounces any desire to reach the Edenic planets or to be happy in this world, with riches, children, cattle, house or any other object related to the body. This one, I take it beyond birth and death”.

God advises anyone who wishes to transcend birth and death to have no material possessions. This means that one should not seek to become happy in this world or to be promoted on an Edenic planet, no more than one should aspire to material wealth, to happy descendants, to pleasant residences or to possession of a large herd. Whatever the holy man gets by the grace of God, he is happy with it. He is not in the least attached to improving his social condition.

He is absorbed in the service of the Lord, and for the rest, he sticks to the bare essentials. He doesn't care what happens to him in this life or the next. Without even