Man seeks to satisfy his lust; if he fails to do so, then anger and greed arise. Therefore, the sane person who does not want to fall into demonic species must try to rid himself of these three enemies capable of “killing” and suffocating the soul, to the point of depriving it of any chance of freeing itself from the traps of material existence.
Sexual life is the root of material slavery, for it forces the soul to reincarnate and prevents its entry into the spiritual world. This is why the Lord advises us to abstain, especially if we wish to put an end to the cycle of reincarnation and enter His eternal kingdom.
Ignorance. Ignorance is the absence of information about God as He really is, the lack of knowledge of our true spiritual identity, and the lack of understanding of existential and absolute truth.
Ignorance prevents man from acting correctly. It is also the cause of human error, blindness, perdition, violence, aggression, criminality, and atheism. The true culprit behind all this is ignorance.
The mind is the cause of man's imprisonment and enslavement in matter. The mind is the origin of lust, anger, pride, greed, sorrow, delusion, and fear.
The mind can be the best friend of the conditioned soul, as it can be its worst enemy. Man must use them to elevate himself, not to degrade himself.
In material existence, everyone is a slave to the mind and the senses; in fact, it is the mind that gives us a false conception of ourselves, that instills in us the desire to dominate material nature, and that is the cause of the soul's imprisonment in the material universe.
If the mind is directed so as not to be fascinated by the shimmering of matter, the soul will escape its conditioning. Under no circumstances should we indulge in sense objects, for, through a process of degradation, they sink us ever deeper into material existence.
The best way to free ourselves from this entanglement will be to never offer our thoughts more than a single object: Krishna, God, the Supreme Personality.
Absorbed in sense objects, it imprisons the being, and detached from sense objects, it liberates the being and is the origin of liberation, of salvation.
Concentrating the mind on Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, brings about supreme liberation.