If God opens, who can close, and if He closes, who can open?

They still do not know that God, through His various energies that permeate all the elements of matter in the material universe, controls everything. Nothing can be done, occur, or take place without His prior decree. Everything is subject to His sanction, to His consent.

To surrender ourselves to Him and serve Him with love and devotion—this is the perfection of existence.

If we wish to follow the path of wisdom, then:

Let us reject anger and replace it with calm and self-control.

Let us reject malice and replace it with kindness.

Let us reject hatred and replace it with love.

Let us reject greed and replace it with sharing.

Let us reject resentment and replace it with forgiveness.

Let us reject fleeting material knowledge that vanishes with death and replace it with true, eternal spiritual knowledge that opens the mind to truth.

Let us reject idle, meaningless conversations that lead nowhere and replace them with meaningful dialogue with a qualified spiritual teacher, a genuine servant of God, whom we have chosen.

Let us reject everything that binds us to the material world; such as passions and sensual pleasures, murder, theft, sensuality, illicit sexuality outside of marriage, lying, slander, abusive and hurtful words, criticism focused solely on negation, greed, debasement, covetousness, envy, desire, wickedness in all its forms, and false teaching [Denying the existence of God, altering His word and teachings, denying the law of cause and effect, denying that life continues after the death of the physical body, denying that God alone has the power to liberate fallen souls like ourselves].

Let us turn away from the atheistic materialists who lead us down the path of perdition, darkness, and ignorance of absolute truth, forcing us to practice abortion and euthanasia—two abominable crimes that condemn the soul to the continuous suffering it will endure in one, or even several, future lives. Let us replace them with pure beings, devotees of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person.