for He is the Supreme Lord. On this basis then develops love for Krishna, which involves and exceeds both awareness of the spiritual self and liberation. Because he is inundated with this absolute love, the holy being knows the fullness of “to become one” with Krishna, in the sense that the Lord has become everything for him. Once this intimate relationship is established between the Lord and his devotee, he experiences immortality. God, the Supreme Person, never leaves the vision of being holy; but never again does the latter take the risk of identifying with Him, which would be true spiritual suicide. Loved by this pure love, Krishna never hides from his devotee, any more than the latter never ceases to see him. Krishna consciousness is the highest happiness that the spiritualist can experience; this awareness that he has of the presence of Krishna in every being, in the form of the Supreme Soul, frees him from all fault.
The being who is aware of Krishna is the perfect realized soul. Because he has felt them himself, he understands everyone's joys and sorrows. He knows that pain arises from forgetting the bond that unites being with Krishna, and happiness comes from knowing the Lord; he knows that the Lord is the sole master of the fruit of man’s acts, the sole possessor of countries and planets. He knows it to be conditioned by the three gunas; virtue, passion, ignorance, must, for having forgotten the link which unites it to Krishna, undergo material suffering from three sources. The saint, because he has the greatest happiness, strives to share Krishna consciousness with everyone, to make people understand how important it is to become Krishna conscious. Thus ensuring the happiness of each one, the accomplished spiritualist shows himself the most sincere friend, the greatest benefactor of men and the most dear servant of the Lord. The holy being is the most perfect of realized souls, because he does not seek perfection for himself alone, but also for all beings. He never jealous of others. These traits of pure devotee of the Lord make him more perfect than the solitary meditator, only concerned with his own elevation.
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Lord Krishna says:
“Because I am God, the Supreme Person, I know everything about the past, the present and the future. I also know all beings; but Me, nobody knows Me. All beings are born into illusion, tossed about by the dualities of desire and aversion. But the men free from these dualities, fruit of the illusion, the men who, in their past lives as in this life, were virtuous, the men in whom sin ended, these serve Me with determination. Through devotional service, they take refuge in Me, these intelligent