Why does God allow the soul to wander in the material universe?
All those who reject God, challenge His authority, envy Him, and have a corporeal conception of existence must endure the cycle of successive reincarnations and thus experience the tribulations of rebirth, illness, old age, and repeated death.
The Lord allows the soul that wishes to wander to slide to the lowest point of existence, solely for the purpose of giving it the opportunity to judge for itself whether or not it can be happy by misusing its independence. Most of the incarnate and materially conditioned souls languishing in the material universe misuse their independence, so much so that they all sink into illusion and suffer life after life. Because all human beings have a bodily conception of existence based on sense pleasure and lust as their major poison, they will suffer endlessly life after life. Under these conditions, there can be neither peace nor prosperity on earth, but only aggression, violence, and war.
Putting the Lord into our minds, being imbued with God consciousness, reasoning and acting as a spiritual entity, placing ourselves under the authority of Krishna, the Supreme Personality in His Personal, Primordial, Original, Infinite, and Absolute form, and loving one another—this is what brings peace and harmony to earth.
Truly, true poverty is not being completely destitute; no, true poverty is being distant from God, having forgotten who He is, and no longer knowing what He really is like.
True children of God, the servants of the Lord, never seek to obtain anything in the human world, for they evolve and work exclusively in the spiritual sphere, and therefore dwell among the poor and the penniless.
This is why Jesus said: Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.
God encourages them with these words: This is the inheritance they will have: I will be their inheritance. You shall give them nothing, for I will be their possession.
Therefore, each of these children of God, these servants and handmaids of the Lord will tell you: in the world of men I have nothing, because I am poor. But nevertheless, what God has given me, all the gold in the universe cannot equal. What could you offer me that I do not already possess?
What is true liberation, true salvation?
True liberation, also called salvation, is spiritual.