No one can have recourse to the powers conferred to him by the practice of religion, to his material wealth or to any other means, whether by himself or with the help of others, to challenge the orders of the Sovereign Lord. From Brahma, the demiurge and first created being to the ant, no living being has the power, because everything is under the domination of God.
In truth, a spiritual being having put on a human body or animal, cannot escape the jurisdiction of the Supreme Person. Each must accept his fate and let himself be led by the Lord. No material means can allow us to escape the happiness and unhappiness intended for our particular body. Each human, animal and plant body is destined to experience a certain amount of joys and sorrows, we cannot change it, because happiness and unhappiness are ordained by the Lord, by whose our specific body has been granted to us.
As we cannot escape his designs, we must accept to be guided by him. If in all circumstances we remain faithful to the condition for which the Supreme Lord intends us while adhering and following his instructions, then we will attain the perfection of existence, our life will be crowned with success.
We must accept the situation in which we put the will of the Sovereign Lord, whatever it may be, and seek to absorb ourselves in his service of love and devotion. It is then that our lives will be fruitful.
In truth, living beings, embodied souls, are in a relative position despite their qualitative identity with the Lord. God reigns as Master over all things, and the living being for his part is always ruled, either by spiritual energy or by material energy. So he can never come to be the master of one or the other of these two energies. His natural position is to always keep himself subordinate to Krishna, God, the Supreme Person.
He who accepts to behave in this way attains the perfection of existence, but he who revolts against the will of God remains in a state conditioned by matter, a slave of material nature.
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Where does spiritual life lead us, and how can we know whether or not we will have to be reborn for a new material existence?