If you take to this clarifying process, then it will be just like as clear as mirror, and you will be able to see your face nicely, what I am. Then you'll understand that "I do not belong to this material world; I belong to the spiritual world, ahaṁ brahmāsmi." And when you realize that, then if you can act yourself as Brahman, then your life is successful.
- brahma-bhutaḥ prasannātmā
- na śocati na kāṅkṣati
- samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu
- mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām
- (BG 18.54)
That is beginning of devotional service.
So Kṛṣṇa, Caitanya Mahāprabhu, sādhu-śāstra-kṛpāya yadi kṛṣṇonmukha haya sei jīva nistare (CC Madhya 20.120). Nistare means he becomes delivered. If somehow or other he becomes Kṛṣṇa conscious by the mercy of a sādhu, and by understanding the śāstra, if somehow or other he becomes lean to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then he is eligible for being delivered from this miserable condition of material life. Māyā tāhāre chāḍaya. Then this illusion, māyā, releases our light here now. That is also stated in the Bhagavad-gītā:
- daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī
- mama māyā duratyayā
- mām eva ye prapadyante
- māyām etaṁ taranti te
- (BG 7.14)
This simple process, that you surrender to Kṛṣṇa and māyā immediately gives you release, "Oh, no more. That's all right."