Meaning of this Sanskrit song of the holy names of Krishna, God:

“O Lord, O Source of all happiness, please make me your beloved servant”.

Krishna, God, the Supreme Person is the center of all activities, and a conscious existence of God is naturally sanctified.

Logos 252

The Eternal Supreme says: “Who has mastered the mind, and thus gained serenity, has already reached the Supreme Soul. Joy and pain, cold and heat, glory and stigma, he sees them with one eye”.

All beings, without exception, are made to live in obedience to God, the Supreme Person, seated in their hearts, in the form of the Supreme Soul also called the Holy Spirit. Man, however, engages in material acts as long as the illusory external energy of God misleads his mind. Therefore, we consider him to have reached the goal as soon as, by means of the practice of union with God, he masters his mind.

Each being must, by its very nature, live under the orders of a higher force. Also, from the moment the mind becomes fixed on the higher nature, man has no alternative but to follow the directives of God. The mind must receive instructions from a higher source and submit to them. Once the mind is mastered, man automatically follows the directives of the Supreme Soul. Now, the conscious sage of God, immediately reaches this absolute spiritual state called meditation, a state of total absorption in the Supreme Lord where one is no longer affected by the dualities of material existence, the flow and reflux of joys and sorrows, heat and cold...

Logos 253

The Supreme Lord says: “The mind can be the friend of the conditioned soul, as it can be its enemy. Man should use it to elevate himself, not to degrade himself”.

The mind is the focus of the practice of union with God. The purpose of the practice of union with God (also called yoga) is to dominate the mind, to prevent it from attaching itself to the objects of the senses. In addition, the effect of yoga should be to educate the mind, so that the mind can bring the conditioned soul out of the ignorance in which it is held. In material existence everyone is a slave to the mind and the senses; in fact it is the mind which gives us a false conception of ourselves, which germinates in us the desire to dominate the material nature and which is at the origin