purifies his senses and uses them in the service of the Lord is none other than the service of devotion.

Even if a man seems to remain awake all day long, until he has not developed in himself a spiritual vision, he is really just sleeping. Until he comes to act in full spiritual light, he is considered to be continually asleep. After having spent countless lifetimes indulging in harsh austerities to obtain knowledge, man accesses real knowledge and attains real wisdom when he surrenders himself to God, the Supreme Person. Thus, the holy being who has come to perfect knowledge cannot, at any time, forget what he owes to the Lord.

Wake up and resist “Maya”, the energy of illusion of the Lord, who is related to Satan.

Under the influence of material energy, beings incarnated and conditioned by matter become entangled in a thousand difficulties for the sole purpose of tasting a derisory material happiness. They engage in self-directed action without knowing the implications, effects and consequences thereof. Driven by the mistaken sense of being the body in which they reside, conditioned beings foolishly surround themselves with countless attachments, all of them illusory. They believe that they can live perpetually in this material environment. This gross mistake exercises such a hold over them that they suffer from it continually, life after life, prisoners of the external energy of the Lord, in his aspect of energy of illusion, who thus seeks to force beings to turn to the Supreme Lord, so that they end up obeying Him and doing His divine will.

Let us all realize that all bodily conceptions of pleasure are only products of illusory energy and realize that everything in this world is but the creation of material energy in its aspect of illusory energy. Also, if somehow we become aware of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, no matter what our initial motives are, we will eventually realize the truth as it is, by the grace of the Lord. We will then lose all interest in material pleasures.

It is only given to holy beings, devotees of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, to attain the perfection of existence.

When to one who takes only the first steps on the path of devotional service and who, without being yet ripe falls from his position, he is nevertheless superior to the human being who consecrates himself entirely to the self-serving acts of this world.