Why is it essential that we regain the position we had with God at the beginning of all things?

Who are we really?

Each of us is, in truth, a spiritual spark, also called a spirit soul, a tiny fragment, an integral part of Krishna, God, the Supreme Personality. We too possess within us a portion of the Lord's energy or blissful power.

The Lord Himself teaches us that the dazzling radiance emanating from His supreme and absolute body is an emanation of His spiritual energy or internal power; we therefore possess within us a tiny portion of this beautiful energy, by virtue of the fact that we are a tiny fraction of His sublime Person.

In truth, the individual and distinct spiritual souls of God, which each of us is, are spiritual atoms also called spiritual sparks, minute eternal fragments, minute eternal particles, integral parts of Krishna, God, the Supreme Personality, infinitesimal components of this radiance, this dazzling radiance, this absolute light. This radiance is limitless, immeasurable, infinite.

We are in the world of forgetfulness.

We have forgotten God, the bond that unites us to Him, who we really are, and how to escape this illusory world where we must undergo the wheel of time, repeated rebirths or reincarnations, and deaths, and in each life, experience these four sufferings: birth, illness, old age, and death.

We have forgotten God, as well as the loving and devoted service we must offer Him. This is why we are lost in this world of death and successive reincarnations, where suffering is permanent.

In truth, forgetfulness comes from death. When we die, we must then change our bodies; it is this change of body that causes forgetfulness.

The Lord adds: When an individual being, believing himself to be different from Me, forgets his spiritual identity, according to which he is qualitatively One with Me, both in eternity and in knowledge and bliss, his conditioned material existence then begins. In other words, instead of identifying his interests with Mine, he begins to be interested in the extensions of his body, such as his wife, children, and material possessions. Thus, through the effect of his actions, one birth is followed by another, and one death by another.

Human beings suffer because they have forgotten God and no longer know who He is.

Living beings suffer because they are unaware of the existence of the hidden treasure represented by Krishna, God, the Supreme Personality. This hidden treasure is also the love for God, which all the Vedic scriptures, the Vedas, the original holy scriptures also called “The True Gospel,” invite the conditioned soul to discover.

The conditioned soul is unaware that it is the daughter of the richest Being there is, God. Therefore, the true gospel is transmitted to it to help it rediscover its Father and its heritage, love for God.

It is through devotional service performed in full Krishna consciousness that one can find this treasure. Such is the hidden wealth that never dries up, such that by acquiring it, one becomes rich forever.