Logos 68
Any spiritual being embodied in a human or animal body believes himself free to dispose of himself, while in truth no one escapes the laws of the Supreme Lord, severe laws, laws forever inviolable.
It happens that criminals, by trickery, circumvent the laws of men, but never with impunity the codes of the supreme legislator, God. Anyone who risks the slightest deviation from the path laid out by God faces great hardship. In general, we name religious precepts the laws of the Supreme Being, whose essential principle is invariable that in all circumstances, man obeys the will of the Sovereign Lord. No one escapes the severe laws of God. The laws of a state are only imperfect imitations of religious precepts. The state allows citizens to break divine laws, but strictly enjoins them to obey its own. But the people suffer more if they neglect the laws of God and observe only human laws. Human laws must always be modified, revised, but not those of God, since they come from the being who possesses supreme perfection.
Each is, by his very nature, an eternal servant of the Supreme Lord. Thus, in a liberated state, he can serve the Lord in a feeling of purely spiritual love, and thus enjoy an existence of perfect freedom.
Logos 69
The origin of all the sufferings of the embodied soul is indeed the body of matter which covers it, subject to birth and death, disease and old age.
Outside this body of matter, the incarnated spiritual being is eternal, immortal and not born. Such is the reality of life that the fool forgets, of which he ignores the problems and the solutions to them. He gets stuck in precarious family and national interests, without perceiving the furtive slide of eternal time which constantly brings him closer to the end of an existence, and sees no solution to the serious problem of this death, and repeated rebirths, to disease and aging. This is what is called the illusion. However, this illusion has no hold on the soul awakened by devotion to the service of the Lord. Because he is eternal, the individual being distinct from God, incarnate, finds happiness only in the eternal kingdom of the Supreme Lord, from which no one returns to this world of birth, disease, aging and death. death.
This is why any comfort or material pleasure, offering no assurance of eternity, can only be illusory for the immortal soul. He deserves to be called a scholar, one who grasps the depth of this truth. He will know how to sacrifice all the pleasures of this world to achieve the only desirable goal, absolute happiness, which can only be found in the kingdom of God.