Sinful reactions generally manifest themselves in four phases; some are ready to bear fruit, others affect the seed form, others are still unmanifested, and the last ones are already underway. These sinful acts can be divided into two groups. The first group refers to the faults for which we suffer today, while the second relates to those for which we will suffer later. Thus, when the seed of the consequences of our faults has not yet borne fruit, they are said to be on hold. These seeds of sin remain imperceptible, but they are innumerable, and no one can determine when their appearance dates back. It is because of these unclean seeds that have already borne fruit that a person is born into a family of poor condition or endures various other ills.
However, when one adopts the service of devotion offered to God, all the phases of the sinful life are destroyed. Devotional service nullifies all the consequences of a sinful existence; all reactions due to our faults. When devotional service lives in a person's heart, there is no longer any desire to act reprehensibly. The sinful life results from ignorance, that is, from the forgetting of our natural and eternal position as a servant of God; but as soon as a person becomes fully aware of God, he realizes that he is the eternal servant (servant) of Krishna, God.
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The Lord says: “Whoever reaches the spiritual level knows at the same time who is the Supreme Spiritual Being and finds there infinite joy. Never does he grieve, never does he yearn for anything; he also shows himself willing towards all beings. He then obtains to serve Me with pure love and devotion.”
Devotional service is true liberation. When a man is attracted by the beauty of the Sovereign Person and his thoughts are constantly directed towards Him, he loses all interest in subjects which do not favor his spiritual development. In other words, material action is no longer attractive to him.
The individual soul is established at the level of spiritual existence, all of bliss, when it fully realizes that its happiness depends on its spiritual realization, the very foundation of bliss, and when it is absorbed for eternity in the service of the Lord, who has no one above Him.
In the material universe, under the influence of a bodily conception of existence, everyone is going in the wrong direction. But when one becomes spiritually realized, one understands that one is distinct from the body and that it is just as vain as wrong to act according to the body. This is when the devotional service can begin.