Just as blind people guided by another blind person stray from the ideal path and fall into a ravine, people attached to material life, who allow themselves to be guided by other human beings who are also materialistically minded, are bound by the very strong ropes of self-interested action and endlessly pursue their material existence, subject to the three forms of suffering: those arising from the body and mind, those arising from other living beings, and those arising from material nature (hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, droughts, etc.).

Generally speaking, it can be said that almost all humankind is unaware of the existence of the spiritual world. The knowledge of materialists is extremely limited to the confines of our material galaxy, located in the dark part of creation. They are unaware that beyond our galaxy lies a myriad of others, and even further, the spiritual world.

Unless one perfectly knows God, in His primordial form, and is His devotee, no one can know of the existence of the spiritual world.

Humans, interested only in the material universe, are called blind. These blind people can, of course, be guided by spiritual masters who are just as blind as themselves, for they lack true, genuine knowledge, that which concerns the nature of existence in this world of dense matter. These blind masters, preoccupied with the external, material world, remain forever imprisoned in the powerful bonds of material nature.

Unless one renounces materialism and rejects sense pleasure, it will be very difficult to attach oneself to the Lord and thus be conscious of Him. Only by becoming conscious of Krishna, God, the Supreme Personality, by taking refuge in Him, and by serving Him with love and devotion, can one free oneself from material contamination.

1)     To be blind is to be completely ignorant of God, to know nothing of His real, personal, primordial, original, infinite, and absolute form.

2)     To be blind is to be completely ignorant of the data relating to existential truth.

3)     To be blind is to be completely ignorant of our true spiritual identity, of the bond that unites us to Krishna, and of the natural position we have with Him.

4)     To be blind is to be ignorant that all our thoughts, words, and actions produce positive or negative effects, which cause consequences whose benefits or suffering we will have to feel in our current life, and certainly in our next existence.

5)     To be blind is to be ignorant that the ultimate objective of existence is God Himself. We must absolutely go and find Him in His eternal kingdom.

6)     To be blind is to be ignorant of true knowledge, which allows us to achieve spiritual realization and attain Krishna consciousness.

7)     To be blind is to be ignorant of the knowledge relating to wisdom, which guides the incarnate being on the path to transcendental light.

8)     To be blind is to be ignorant of the existence of the spiritual world, without beginning or end, which will always exist.

9)     Being blind also means staying away from evil, criminal, and unbelieving beings, so as not to see and hear what they do and say, not to fall into their unjust traps, and to protect oneself from them while remaining far from materialism, rooted in spirituality and pure virtue.

10)       Being blind also means having, by the grace of God, spiritual eyes, which allow one to see what the material eye cannot see, all the salutary signs that the Lord shows to men, in order to guide them on the path of salvation.

I must admit that I have excessively shortened the text, as I did not want to be too lengthy and elaborate.