To serve God with love and devotion, such is true freedom.

At the origin of all things, while the material cosmos did not yet exist, spiritual entities also called spiritual souls lived with Krishna, God, the Supreme Person in his absolute realm, all of knowledge, bliss and eternity, and served him with love and devotion.

But some souls became envious of God and wanted to usurp his position as Sovereign Lord, Absolute Master, and challenged his authority by refusing to obey Him and serve Him with devotion.

In reality, the spiritual soul is eternal and the material cosmos has been created to allow this illusory existence, which is called “faux ego”. The living being, the embodied soul, believes himself to be independent of God and free to act as he sees fit. These are the first fruits of Paradise Lost, of the fall of Adam. When Adam and Eve believed themselves free to do as they wished, they were condemned.

As the everlasting servant of the Supreme Lord, each is to act in harmony with the desire and will of God. When he deviates from this principle, he is lost. Cast out of Paradise, he comes into the material universe where God grants him certain facilities to act, while saying to him:

“If you act according to My directives, you will be able to come back to Me. If you refuse, you will fall more and more”.

This translates the transmigration, the reincarnation of the soul in the endless cycle of death and rebirth. All this results from disobedience to God.

When the living being hears the teaching of the Supreme Lord, he revives his original position and returns to God, to his first abode.

The Supreme Eternal says: “Leave all forms of religious practice and simply surrender to Me. I will deliver you from all the consequences of your faults. Have no fear.”

Krishna, the Supreme Eternal further specifies: “He will attain liberation, the one who thus understands the material nature and what the living being and the interaction of the three are gunas [virtue, passion and ignorance]. Whatever his condition, he will never be reborn in this world again.”

A clear vision of the material nature, of the Supreme Soul (God), of the individual being distinct from the Lord and of the relationships that exist between them, makes