Logos 283
The soul is all about kindness originally. When we access the soul plane, all is goodness. All beings are an integral part of God, the Infinitely Good. Being part of God, we are also pure, because we are spiritual souls.
Impurities are acquired by the defilement of the material universe due to our incarnation and our conditioning by matter and our material body. Because the three gunas, the three attributes and modes of influence of material nature, virtue, passion and ignorance, influence the soul, it suffers. She must be relieved of all suffering. From a material point of view, one can be a wise scholar tainted by virtue or a worker tainted by passion or ignorance. But from a spiritual point of view, both are contaminated by material Nature. Hence their suffering. As long as these material influences affect us, we are all in the same boat.
Logos 284
The Supreme Eternal says: “He will attain liberation, the one who thus understands the material nature, and what are the living being and the interaction of the three gunas (virtue, passion and ignorance). Whatever his present condition, he will never be reborn in this world”.
A clear vision of the material nature, of the Supreme Soul, of the individual being distinct from God and of the relationships that exist between them, makes one able to achieve liberation and the spiritual world where one does not have to return to the material universe. This is the fruit of knowledge. Its purpose is to see distinctly that, by some accident, we have fallen to the level of material existence. As a result of personal efforts and in contact with holy scriptures, holy men as well as a spiritual master authentic servant of God, all making authorities in the matter, we must know our position, then, enlightened by the Divine Word as that given by God in person, return to spiritual consciousness, the consciousness of God. Thus we will be sure to never return to material existence, but to be transported to the spiritual world, to taste an eternal life of knowledge and bliss. As long as the individual soul distinct from God acts under the influence of bodily designations or impulses, it is not free. Let her abandon these designations and accept to become the servant of God, and she will be released. The Lord Supreme alone grants liberation.
We must act only for God. Otherwise, we follow each other. Whoever says freedom says to act for the Supreme. Thus are we freed from karma or law of action and reaction. When we act for God it is in freedom, but when we act for ourselves karma binds us, we lose our freedom and we will have to suffer the consequences of our own actions.