If the embodied and conditioned soul becomes conscious of God, by the mercy of holy people, the servants of the Divine and spiritual masters, who give themselves the mission of teaching the scriptural injunctions and of helping him, she escapes from the claws of maya, which releases her grip. By its own efforts, the conditioned soul cannot revive its consciousness of God. But in his inexpressible grace, Lord Krishna wrote the Vedic writings, the original holy scriptures called “The true gospel”.

Logos 281

When a person gradually progresses from material perception to spiritual perception, he realizes how insignificant were his material desires, feelings, and aversions, contaminated for so long by ignorance.

When this ignorance dissipates, material desires lose all importance. Desires subsist, but turn into spiritual desires. We then perceive the Supreme Being, the Supreme Soul and the Sovereign Lord as a unique reality. This higher perception is only possible when our mind and senses are spiritualized, a stage impossible to reach all at once. Those who seek to achieve the impossible are unreasonable and overly ambitious. Each person should do this gradually, making sure their foot rests on firm ground before lifting the other foot. Thus will we finally reach the goal.

To surrender to God, to serve him with love and devotion and to sing his glories and his Holy Name, allows us to spiritualize our mind and our senses.

Logos 282

The Eternal Supreme says: “Those who have the vision of eternity can see that the soul is spiritual, eternal, beyond the three gunas (modes of influence of material nature; virtue, passion and ignorance). Although seated in the body of matter, the soul never acts, nor is it bound.”

Because the body is born, the embodied spiritual being that inhabits it also seems to be born, but it is in fact eternal; it transcends matter and remains immortal, unborn, although located in the body. He remains, by nature, full of bliss. It cannot therefore be destroyed. He never gets involved in material activities; consequently, the acts engendered by his contact with the bodies of matter which he takes on do not really chain him.