By following this path, the spiritualist gradually develops a pure love for the Sovereign Lord, Sri Hari. In the course of his progress on the path of devotional service, the hairs of his body come to stand up under the effect of extreme joy, and he is bathed in a constant stream of tears caused by his intense love. Gradually, even his mind, which he used to lure the Lord just as one lures a fish to a hook, renounces all material activity. When the mind is thus perfectly rid of all material defilement and detached from all material objective, it becomes like the flame of a lamp. He then truly unites with the mind of the Supreme Lord, and can be perceived as being One with Him, being freed from the flow of combined material influences. Thence located at the highest spiritual level, the mind cuts itself off from all material reaction and establishes itself in its own glory, beyond any material conception of happiness and unhappiness. At this time, the spiritualist realizes the truth of his relationship with God, the Supreme Person. He discovers that the joys and sorrows attributed to his own being, like their interactions, are in fact the only false ego, which is a product of ignorance.

Because it has regained its real identity, the perfectly realized soul is not aware of how the material body moves or acts, any more than a drunk man is really aware of being dressed or not. The Sovereign Lord in person now takes charge of the body as well as the senses of a liberated spiritualist, so that his functions are maintained until his destiny is fulfilled. The freed saint, who has awakened to his natural and eternal position and thus finds himself established in samadhi (spiritual ecstasy, spiritual bliss, constant meditation on Lord Krishna), the highest level of perfection of yoga, no longer sees the products of his material body as his own. He therefore keeps the activities of this body for as many manifestations of a dream. Out of deep affection for family and wealth, we will see a son or money as his own, and out of affection for the material body, we will consider the same in the same way. But in truth, just as one can understand that family and wealth are different from oneself, the liberated person knows that he is different from his body. Fire itself is distinguished from flames, sparks and smoke, even if all of these elements are intimately linked due to the fact that they come from the same burning wood.

The Sovereign Lord, known as Param Brahman (the Supreme Person), is the real observer, and He is distinguished from the individual soul, which is united to the senses, the five elements and consciousness.

The spiritualist must see in every manifestation a single soul, because everything that exists proceeds from the different energies of the Supreme Being. So the sage must see all beings with an equal eye, without any distinction. This is the realization of the