68 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 10, Ch. 1
thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” But when the body again
mixes with the five material elements—earth, water, fire, air and
ether—the mind continues to work. The mind is the subtle substance in
which the body is created, as we actually experience in our dreams and
also when we are awake in contemplation. One must understand that the
process of mental speculation develops a new type of body that does not
actually exist. If one can understand the nature of the mind
(manorathena) and its thinking, feeling and willing, one can very easily
understand how from the mind different types of bodies develop.

The Krsna consciousness movement, therefore, offers a process of
transcendental activities wherein the mind is fully absorbed in affairs
pertaining to Krsna. The presence of the soul is perceived by conscious-
ness, and one must purify his consciousness from material to spiritual,
or, in other words, to Krsna consciousness. That which is spiritual is
eternal, and that which is material is temporary. Without Krsna con-
sciousness, one’s consciousness is always absorbed in temporary things.
For everyone, therefore, Krsna recommends in Bhagavad-gita (9.34),
man-mané bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam namaskuru. One should
always be absorbed in thought of Krsna, one should become His devotee,
one should always engage in His service and worship Him as the supreme
great, and one should always offer Him obeisances. In the material world
one is always a servant of a greater person, and in the spiritual world our
constitutional position is to serve the Supreme, the greatest, param
brahma. This is the instruction of Sri Caitanya Mahdprabhu. Jivera
‘svaripa’ haya—krsnera ‘nitya-dasa’ (Cc. Madhya 20.108).

To act in Krsna consciousness is the perfection of life and the highest
perfection of yoga. As Lord Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (6.47):

yoginadm api sarvesam
mad-gatenantaratmanda
Sraddhavan bhajate yo mam
sa me yuktatamo matah
“Of all yogis, he who always abides in Me with great faith, worshiping
Me in transcendental loving service, is most intimately united with Me in
yoga and is the highest of all.”
The condition of the mind, which flickers between sarikalpa and
