son or a citizen who is deprived of spiritual vision to karmic activities? We would act like the one who leads a blind man to a deep well and knocks him down”.

The Lord adds: “Let the sage not disturb the ignorant people attached to the fruits of their actions. They should not be encouraged to act, but rather to permeate each of their acts of love and devotion.”

Logos 206

The Lord says: “When the influence of ignorance covers the individual soul, it cannot understand the nature of the infinitesimal being nor that of the Supreme Being; his mind is then taken over by the interested action. As a result, unless she develops her love for the Supreme Lord, who is none other than Myself, she is certainly not freed from successive transmigrations”.

When the mind is defiled by the interested action, the individual being always aspires to a better material situation. In general, everyone works hard, day and night, to improve their economic condition. And even when the living being has knowledge of religious rites, he turns to the Edenic planets, unaware that his real interest is to return to God, in his original home. If he stays on the path of interested action, he must wander throughout the universe within different forms and species. Unless you are in contact with a devotee of the Lord, an authentic spiritual master, no one can cling to the service of the Lord. Knowledge of God is only acquired after many lives.

It is only after struggling for sustenance over many lifetimes that one can find refuge with God. The living being then becomes truly wise and surrenders to the Lord. This is the only way to end the repeat of births and deaths. The incarnate and conditioned being wanders from one planet to another, in different forms, in different bodies, but if he has the fortune to meet an authentic spiritual master, he can, by his grace, find refuge in God, and start his devotional life.

Logos 207

What is the source of our suffering?

Unbelievers must suffer various material tribulations because of their tendency to commit reprehensible self-serving acts. Under the influence of ignorance (of the absence of data relating to God and to the absolute truth) the desire to sin persists in their hearts.