The Supreme Personality of Godhead tells us the ideal attitude we should adopt: Ephemeral joys and sorrows, like summers and winters, come and go. They are due solely to the encounter of the senses with matter, and we must learn to tolerate them without being affected by them.
We cannot escape the sufferings of this world; the only remedy is to tolerate them, accept them, and endure them. He who not only manages to tolerate the miseries of this world, but also remains calm and serene in the face of its joys and sorrows, is worthy of liberation.
The Supreme Eternal says: He who is unaffected by joy and sorrow, who remains serene and resolute in all circumstances, is worthy of liberation (salvation).
He who, firmly determined to realize his spiritual self, is able to tolerate the onslaughts of both unhappiness and happiness, is ready to attain liberation. No obstacle can stop someone who truly desires to make their life perfect.
We can make our lives perfect by learning to tolerate the difficulties of this life and, in the next, by returning to a world where suffering does not exist—I call it the spiritual world.
God had said:Whether you wash with nitre or use a lot of potash, your iniquity will remain marked before Me.
He who commits evil, whatever its form, suffers the perverse effects of his own sinful acts, which he keeps inscribed in his spiritual essence, like a stain, the resulting trace of his wickedness.
It is not by listing one's sins to the priests, by immersing oneself in so-called “sacred” water, by making libations, or by going to a holy place of pilgrimage without seeking to meet the wise men there, that our faults or sins will be erased.
This is false, for those who say this are liars.
There is only one way to erase our sins and remain pure: to renounce materialism, sense pleasures, selfish actions, and the fruits of our actions; to act only for Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and to offer everything to Him.
It is also essential that we surrender completely to God, reject evil in all its forms, and firmly resolve to obey the Lord, do His divine will, and serve Him with love and devotion. Then our sufferings and sins will disappear.
Let us act for God, be His eternal servants and handmaids, return to our original spiritual position, the one we already had with Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead at the beginning of all things, offer to the Lord all our actions and all the fruits resulting from them, as well as our very existence and lives, then we will live in purity, because our thoughts, words and actions will no longer generate effects of any kind. Lord Krishna will then offer us eternal life, true freedom, absolute peace and true permanent and endless happiness.