the quality of mercy. By consuming corpses, you transform your body into a cemetery. These foods are saturated with modes of passion and ignorance and therefore cannot be offered to the Lord. A person who eats these foods participates in a conspiracy of violence against helpless animals and thus limits their spiritual progress. Non-compassion is indifference to the misfortune of others.

2) Not having sex outside of marriage, because too much sex ruins the purity or cleanliness of body and mind.

3) Refrain from any intoxicating substances such as alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, marijuana and other drugs, as this destroys austerity or repentance.

4) Do not indulge in games of chance or currency speculation, as this ruins truthfulness or honesty.

Logos 278

Intelligence is the result of acts committed in one's past life, and the state of virtue, passion or ignorance that was ours at that time.

The Supreme Eternal says: “By virtue of the divine consciousness acquired in his past life, the being is quite naturally led towards the practice of yoga (of the link which unites us to God), sometimes even without his knowledge.”

Some will be born into wealthy families and may acquire a good education, while others, born to poor families, will remain poorly educated. It should be understood here that opulence, aristocracy, education and beauty are the fruits of past acts. Either way, everyone must be instructed in the conscience of God, no matter where they are in this world. In this sense, there is equal opportunity.

It is written: “The Kirâta, Hûna, Ândhra, Pulinda, Pulkasa, Âbhîra, Sumbha, Yavana, Khasa races, as well as others also stained with faults, can be purified by taking refuge in the devotees of the Lord, because God has all power. To him my most humble tribute. So even the outcast can be formed in the consciousness of God because it is at the soul level.”