and devotion offered to God. True freedom is to act freely for God, and to enjoy serving Him with love and devotion.

Logos 346

The Supreme Lord wishes to see all the beings of this material world happy, it is for this reason that He especially wants us to return to his eternal kingdom, our true original home.

Whenever a material galaxy is destroyed, all living beings find refuge in the body of Karanodakasayi Visnu, plenary manifestation of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, and when creation takes place again, they come out of his body in different forms in order to resume their activities. The beings that come into the material universe must be corrected; all the inhabitants of this world have revolted against the service of the Lord, so that they must remain here in perpetual conditioning and be reborn there endlessly. They have, of course, the possibility of being released, but souls embodied and conditioned by matter, not knowing how to take advantage of this opportunity which is offered to them, continue to seek the pleasures of the senses. They must then, as a punishment, be born and die repeatedly. This is the law of nature.

The Lord said: “The energy that constitutes the three attributes of material nature; virtue, passion, ignorance, this divine energy which is Mine, one cannot, without difficulty, exceed it, but which surrenders to Me easily crosses its limits. Beings, in the world of conditions (the one in which we live), are eternal fragments of My Person. But because they are conditioned, they fight fiercely against the six senses and, among them, the mind.”

The incarnated person's struggle for subsistence in this material world is the result of his rebellious nature, and unless he surrenders to Krishna, he must continue this fight. Anyone who does not reach this level must forever pursue their material existence, sometimes on the upper planets, heavenly, sometimes on the lower planets, in hell. Sometimes the conditioned soul sinks into ignorance, sometimes it experiences some relief when it partially frees itself from it. This is the life of the prisoner of this world.

The Lord adds: “For those who teach My devotees this supreme secret, progress in the service of devotion is assured, and, in the end, it will return to Me without any doubt. None of My servants in this world is dearer to Me than he is, and no one will be dearer to Me.”