By suffering, we must also understand the pains resulting from birth, illness, old age, and death. Therefore, in order to put an end to these four kinds of suffering, we must free ourselves from our dense matter body. This may take many lifetimes, but perhaps we can achieve it in a single life.

If, in this present life, we understand that our material body is the cause of our suffering, then we should inquire about how to free ourselves from it.

Indeed, one who is fully conscious of Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, achieves the cessation of his suffering.

The secret to permanently leaving our material body is to surrender completely to Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to love Him, to obey Him by doing His entire divine will, and to serve Him with love and devotion.

God will then offer us a spiritual body, through which we can enter His absolute kingdom, full of knowledge, bliss, and eternity.

Where is true intelligence really located?

Is consciousness the manifestation of the energy of the spiritual soul?

In truth, true intelligence is located in the consciousness of the soul, and the latter is nothing other than the manifestation of the energy of the spiritual soul.

In reality, true memory and true intelligence are two energies of the individual soul that each of us truly is. They are both integral parts of the spiritual soul, and both are located in the consciousness of the soul.

It is the particular consciousness of an individual spiritual soul, distinct from God, that directs its actions.

The brain is merely an instrument that has no connection with real intelligence. It is, in a way, a supercomputer that allows the various elements and organs of the body to function properly.

The brain of the human body is not the center of intelligence, for it is the consciousness of the soul that determines the intelligence of its actions.

Intelligence, mind, and consciousness in their pure forms are inherent in the individual soul, for all three are within it.

Therefore, we must purify our consciousness.

No matter what brain we have, our life will be crowned with success if we simply turn our consciousness away from matter and orient it toward the spiritual sphere, and specifically toward Krishna, God, the Supreme Personality.