Krishna, God, the Supreme Person says:

One who does not feel any aversion, whether before enlightenment, attachment or delusion, who also does not feel any thirst for these things in their absence, who, above these fruits that bear the three gunas (the three attributes and modes of influence of material nature; virtue, passion, ignorance), stands as neutral, always inflexible, aware of what nothing acts apart from them, which regards pleasure and suffering with the same eye, and for whom the clod of earth, gold and stone are of equal value, who is wise and considers the same praise and blame, which is affected neither by glory nor by reproach, who treats equally friends and enemies, and who has renounced any self-interested enterprise, from this one it is said that he transcended the three gunas.

Ephemeral joys and sorrows, like summers and winters, come and go. They are only due to the meeting of the senses with matter and we must learn to tolerate them, without being affected by them.

That which neither joys nor sorrows affects, which in all circumstances remains serene and resolute, this one is worthy of liberation.

Anyone who, firmly determined to realize his spiritual self, manages to tolerate the onslaught of misfortune as well as happiness, is ready to attain liberation, salvation. No obstacle can stop him from truly wanting to make his life perfect. We can make our life perfect by learning to tolerate the difficulties of this life and the next by returning to a world where there is no suffering. That is to say the miseries caused by the body and the mind, those caused by other living entities, those caused by nature and those caused by birth, disease, old age and finally death.

Without offering sacrifices to God, human beings will suffer.

It is important to make sacrifices for the satisfaction of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person. All the great kings of old, worthy devotees of Krishna, made great sacrifices for the satisfaction of the Master of all sacrifices, Krishna, God, the Supreme Person. These sacrifices were performed with pomp and with all the required elements, and gifts were then offered to the officiating priests.

To perform ritual sacrifices as prescribed in the Vedas, the original holy scriptures, one needs priests experts. However, such priests are lacking in the present age of discord, strife, hypocrisy and sin. This is why the recommended sacrifice for this age is the chanting of the Holy Names of God, “Hare Krishna”, whose sound vibrations are spiritual. Instead of spending money unnecessarily on making sacrifices that are impossible in the present age because of the lack of qualified and genuine priests, the intelligent one sings or recites the hymn of Holy Names of the Lord. If sacrifices intended to satisfy God, the Supreme Person, are not duly made, the rain will fail.