The Supreme Lord is present in our hearts as the Supreme Soul, and knows the details of all our activities.

It is therefore He who grants us the fruits of our actions, He who places us in this or that situation. It is He, for example, who, according to their respective merits, causes one person to be born rich and another poor. Rich or poor, no one has the slightest power to decide whether we will meet or separate from other beings.

The law of karma generally makes us suffer all the consequences of our slightest actions. But it is possible, in certain cases, to see their effects modified. Such a mutation of the laws of karma can only be effected by the will of the Lord, and no one else.

God gives holy beings, those who surrender to Him unreservedly, the absolute assurance that they will be freed from the shackles of karma.

The Lord descends from His kingdom, the highest planet of the spiritual world, to come to the aid of His celestial attendants who govern the material universe when the offenses of the demonic beings become too serious, extending their jealousy of the Lord's Person to that of His devotees.

Embodying and conditioned souls have come into contact with material energy of their own accord, driven by a violent desire to dominate various resources and to taste the illusory feeling of being masters of everything around them. Each one thus seeks to become God, and all these tin-pot gods ardently oppose one another. Such are those who are generally called demonic beings. When they become too numerous, this world takes on the appearance of hell for the devotees of the Lord. The mass of men naturally devoted to the Lord, and with them the pure servants of God and the inhabitants of the higher planets, then pray to the Lord for help.

Answering their prayers, the Lord descends in person from His kingdom or dispatches one of His devotees to lift human society from its fallen condition.

What does it mean to be a liberated soul?

The liberation of conditioned souls, imprisoned in the sheaths of dense, ethereal matter. Once freed from all material defilement, the soul, abandoning its two bodies of gross and ethereal matter, can reach the spiritual world in its original spiritual body, and there at Vaikuṇṭhaloka or Kṛiṣhṇaloka, the supreme planet of Krishna, seated in its eternal kingdom, becomes absorbed in the transcendental loving service offered to the Lord. And it is when the soul is thus in its natural, original, and eternal position that it is called liberated.

It is possible to access the transcendental loving service offered to the Lord, and thus become a liberated soul, even in the material body.