Logos 4
We are all individual spiritual souls distinct from God, distinct from one another, and distinct from the bodies of matter in which we have embodied.
The Lord said: “By your intrinsic nature, you are a living soul of purely spiritual essence. The material body cannot be equated with your true identity, neither can the
mind, intelligence or false ego. Your true identity is to be the eternal servant of Krishna, the Supreme Lord. Your status is transcendent in nature. The higher energy of Krishna is of spiritual essence while the lower, external energy is of material essence. Located between these two energies, you therefore belong to the marginal energy of Krishna, which means that you are one with Him while being distinct from Him. Being spiritual in nature, you are identical to Krishna; but because you are only a tiny fragment of it, you are at the same time different from Him.”
This simultaneous identity and difference have always characterized the relationship which unites beings to the Supreme Lord. In truth, all cosmic manifestation is only the energy of the Supreme Lord. The entire creation is made up of various manifestations of his energy. Every living being, as a soul, participates in the spiritual energy of the Supreme Lord. Since material energy is of an inferior nature, the human being has the power to escape its grip to take full advantage of spiritual energy. The higher energy is veiled by the lower one, which subjects the living being to the sufferings inherent in the material universe according to the thickness of the veil which covers it.
In truth, the conditioned existence in which we find ourselves results from our forgetting of the relationship which unites us to the Supreme Lord within the higher energy. It is only when human beings rediscover their true identity as an eternal servant of the Lord that they achieve liberation, true freedom.
Logos 5
From birth, man becomes indebted to a multitude of beings. He owes, for example, a debt to the great sages, for the benefits he derives from reading their proven works on spirituality.
Thus, we owe Avatar Vyasadeva all the Vedic scriptures, the original holy scriptures also called “The true gospel”. There are also several other sages, including Sankaracarya, Gautama Muni and Narada Muni, who share their knowledge with us, and to whom we are therefore also indebted. Likewise, we owe a debt to our ancestors, because by being born into a family, we inherit its tradition and its heritage; so we must offer them, after their departure from this world, some form of consecrated food. We are still indebted to all those who in one way or another do us a service, whether it is our parents, our relatives, our friends, or even animals like the cow and the dog. And it is our duty to pay off all of these debts to heavenly beings, sages, ancestors, animals, and society as a whole, serving everyone as appropriate. However, the mere fact of engaging in devotional service and surrendering to God, the Supreme Person, abandoning all other forms of occupation, clears all debt and releases from any obligation towards any other source of benefit than the Lord Himself.
The Lord teaches: “Leave all other forms of occupation there, and surrender to Me. All the consequences of your faults, I will free you from them. Have no fear.”
This is the promise made by God. Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, has a special interest in his devotee; so He Himself proclaims that nothing will ever be able to make him fall, because at every moment He protects him.