Logos 359

Only voluntary austerity is useful, that which leads to the purification of the body and of existence.

If one does not endure voluntarily austerities and penance, we will be forced to endure them against our will anyway. Because we accept austerities, Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, gives us pleasurable things. So we are not losers. When we are Krishnaised, we get more comfort than we had. This is a real fact. On the other hand, if we do not agree to follow a spiritual discipline, nature will make us endure many calamities.

The Lord said: The energy which constitutes the three attributes of material nature; virtue, passion, ignorance, this divine energy which is Mine, is extremely difficult to overcome. But whoever abandons himself to Me easily crosses its limits.

Material energy imposes enormous difficulties on living beings, but as soon as one abandons himself to God, these difficulties disappear. Man is unaware that he is constantly under the influence of material energy, which makes him believe what he will never have. He is therefore plunged into illusion. So when living beings forget Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, they are living in the material world and therefore have to suffer because of their sinful acts and for their forgetting of God.

When we say Krishna, it means his Name, its Form, its Entertainment, its energies, everything. It is enough to pronounce the Holy Name of God, Krishna, for our life to be purified and all our sins erased.

Logos 360

The creation, maintenance and destruction of galaxies, take place in a cycle without end.

One of Krishna's entertainments is to make material creation emanate from Him, to maintain and reabsorb it in regular cycles, through Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, called guna-Avatars.

Material nature operates in three modes (gunas): at the time of creation, construction, generation, procreation, etc., material nature operates in the mode of passion. At the time of conservation, maintenance, preservation, etc., nature is