Of the innumerable eternal conscious beings, there is one eternal Supreme Being. He maintains the innumerable living beings according to individual work and reaction of work. By His expansion as Paramatma that Supreme Lord is also present within the heart of every living being. Only through saintly persons, who can see that Supreme Lord within and without, can one attain perfect and eternal peace.
One who disbelieves in the sastras [scriptures] is an atheist and we should not consult an atheist, however great he may be. A staunch believer in the sastras, with all their diversities, is the right person from whom to gather real knowledge. Such knowledge may seem inconceivable in the beginning, but when put forward by the proper authority its meaning is revealed and then one no longer has any doubts about it.
The liberated soul who merges into the existence of the Lord is no better than the trees. Trees also stand in the Lord's existence, because material energy and the Lord's energy are the same. Similarly, the Brahman effulgence is also the energy of the Supreme Lord. It is the same whether one remains in the Brahman effulgence or in the material energy, because in either there is no spiritual activity.
It is hardly possible to find a single Bhakta (devotee) of Krishna among 100,000 liberated persons.