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The  highest  pleasure  in  terms  of  matter  is  sex  pleasure.  The  whole  world  is  moving  under  its  spell,  and  a
        materialist cannot work at all without this motivation. But a person engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness can work
        with  greater  vigor  without  sex  pleasure,  which  he  avoids.  That  is  the  test  in  spiritual  realization.  Spiritual
        realization and sex pleasure go ill together. A Kṛṣṇa conscious person is not attracted to any kind of  sense
        pleasure, due to his being a liberated soul. (Bg 5.21)

        Lord Krishna’s most wonderful blessing is His spoken word. The Bhagavad-gita is His super-excellent treatise of
        spiritual wisdom and morality. He instructed the whole world how to be liberated from the bodily conception
        of life, which is the most perplexing misconception that obstructs people from engagement in spiritual  life.
        Bhaktivedanta Swami explains the process of ultimate emancipation from the cycle of birth and death.

        “One  who  has  a  little  faith  in Bhagavad-gītā should  learn Bhagavad-gītā from  a  devotee,  because  in  the
        beginning of the Fourth Chapter it is stated clearly that Bhagavad-gītā can be understood only by devotees; no
        one else can perfectly understand the purpose of Bhagavad-gītā (Bg 4.3). One should therefore learn Bhagavad-
        gītā from a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, not from mental speculators. This is a sign of faith. When one searches for a
        devotee and fortunately gets a devotee’s association one actually begins to study and understand Bhagavad-
        gītā. By advancement in the association of the devotee one is placed in devotional service, and this service dispels
        all one’s misgivings about Kṛṣṇa, or God, and Kṛṣṇa’s activities, form, pastimes, name and other features. After
        these misgivings have been perfectly cleared away, one becomes fixed in one’s study. Then one relishes the study
        of Bhagavad-gītā and  attains  the  state  of  feeling  always  Kṛṣṇa  conscious.  In  the  advanced  stage,  one  falls
        completely in love with Kṛṣṇa. This highest perfectional stage of life enables the devotee to be transferred to
        Kṛṣṇa’s abode in the spiritual sky, Goloka Vṛndāvana, where the devotee becomes eternally happy.”  (Bg 8.28 -
        purport)

        The following verses spoken by Lord Krishna demonstrate His preoccupation for helping all conditioned souls
        suffering in this world of death. The Lord instructs:

        “An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with the material
        senses. O son of Kuntī, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in
        them.”  (Bg 5.22)

        “Before giving up this present body, if one is able to tolerate the urges of the material senses and check the force
        of desire and anger, he is well situated and is happy in this world.”  (Bg 5.23)

        “One whose happiness is within, who is active and rejoices within, and whose aim is inward is actually the perfect
        mystic. He is liberated in the Supreme, and ultimately he attains the Supreme.”  (Bg 5.24)

        “Those who are beyond the dualities that arise from doubts, whose minds are engaged within, who are always
        busy working for the welfare of all living beings and who are free from all sins achieve liberation in the Supreme.”
        (Bg 5.25)

        The devotee expunges the desires for temporary material pleasures replacing them with limitless desires to
        please the Lord. This purified consciousness is called brahma-bhuta characterized by freedom from lamentation
        and hankering, uninterrupted joyfulness and spiritual vision by seeing the presence of God in the hearts of all
        living creatures. The cause of all mankind’s problems is forgetfulness of one’s eternal relationship with the Lord.
        By Krishna conscious activities one becomes connected to the Lord with devotion and love. This is the status of
        liberation even though one may still be in the material world. Lord Krishna describes such a liberated person:

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