There is no difference, either you follow the father or you follow the servant or you follow . . . because in the absolute world there is no such difference. Advaya-jñāna. It is called advaya-jñāna, "no duality." Although the relationship is father, son and servant, but the fact is one. That is to be understood, what is the spiritual world. The spiritual world, everything is one because everything is spiritual. Here everything is material; therefore they are defining. Here also materially they're one. Similarly, in the spiritual world, because everything is spiritual, therefore it may be father, it may be son, it may be land, it may be water, it may be flower, it may be trees, whatever it may be—varieties there are. As in the material world there are varieties, similarly in the spiritual world also there are varieties; but those varieties are of the same quality, spiritual quality. That is called one. That is oneness.
So this is called dharmajñāḥ: one who knows what is religion. Dharmajñāḥ. Śraddhayānvitāḥ: and faithful. śraddhayānvitāḥ. If one acquires all these qualities, dharmajñāḥ, and undergoes the—what is called?—the process, tapasā brahmacaryeṇa, then the result will be kṣipanty aghaṁ. Then he becomes completely free from all sinful life. Completely. Kṣipanty aghaṁ. Mahad api: even it is the greatest sinful reaction, it will be counteracted. Mahad api.
How it will be counteracted? Then, veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ. Just like there are different kinds of dry grasses—some are very strong, some are very weak, some are very small, some are big—but you set fire, then everything is gone, everything. Everything. It doesn't matter, either the strong, small, big. It doesn't matter. You follow this, and your sinful life will be mitigated. Then you become to the purified state, then no more this birth, death, old age and disease. You are elevated to the transcendental platform, and in your pure state. Because you are part and parcel of God, you are as pure as God, but now you are put into this material condition. You are being contaminated in so many ways; therefore you are suffering, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi (BG 13.9). And if you want to stop this, then you have to adopt this process.