When a mortal surrenders to Me and offers Me all their fruitful work in their desire to serve Me with love and devotion, they then attain freedom from birth and death and qualify to attain immortality, sharing in My nature, and the affluence that accompanies Me.

Whoever establishes Me in their heart can escape the sufferings of hunger, thirst, birth, death, lamentation, and delusion. One can thus return to their original transcendental form. I grant faith and refuge to anyone who surrenders to Me and vows to serve Me forever, for such is My nature. Surrender yourself completely to Me. By My grace, you will experience absolute peace and attain My eternal and supreme abode.

It is only through devotional service, and only thus, that one can know Me as I am. And the being who, through such devotion, becomes fully aware of Me can then enter My absolute kingdom.

Serve Me with love and devotion and quickly return to My kingdom, your true abode.

The Lord adds: Everyone engages in various acts, whether in accordance with the revealed scriptures or not. Now know this: it is enough for one to use the fruits of such acts to worship Me in Krishna consciousness, and one will immediately be blessed with happiness that will continue in this life and the next, in this world as well as in the next. There is no doubt about that. He who works deceit will not dwell in my house, and he who speaks lies will not abide in my presence.

Blessed are those who live outside the material sphere, for they will see God.

Blessed are those who reject materialism, who renounce power, wealth, and material possessions, which are fleeting in this world, and who give all they possess to God, for they truly lose nothing. On the contrary, the Lord will fulfill them beyond their expectations.

It is by sacrificing one's vast material possessions for the benefit of the soul, which each of us is, that one can qualify for access to the kingdom of God, and thus attain the highest perfection of existence. We will then live eternally at the level of the soul, with perfect knowledge of the absolute service of love and devotion offered to Lord Krishna.

It is the interest of the soul that must be sought, not that of the body. It is the needs of the soul that must be satisfied, not those of the body.

In truth, the feelings of the human body do not affect the incarnate spiritual soul, for the latter is transcendental in nature. Birth, illness, old age, and death are inherent to the human body and are contrary to the very nature of the spiritual soul.

The human body is nothing more than a simple garment subject to the laws of material nature from which it originates, as well as to universal time, which transforms it and subjects it to wear and tear.

This is why we must seek above all the interests of the soul and turn to God, understanding that an abnormal attachment to the body is an obstacle to spiritual development. This is why we must absolutely renounce materialism and the deviations it engenders.