Eternal souls remain forever distinct from the Supreme, eternally worshipping in an endless relationship of loving devotion.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: I am sitting in this room. Indian man: Yes.
Prabhupāda: And if by force you drag me away, I shall go to another room. Because I'll have another room. But because you have forcibly driven me away, you are criminal. Similarly, a living entity is ordained to live in a certain body for a certain period.
If you kill, that is the interference with his staying there. You are criminal. Indian man: Yes, that is true.
Prabhupāda: The soul is never killed. Never killed. But because you have forcibly driven away from that body, you become criminal. That is the philosophy.
Prabhupāda: So you cannot do that. Indian man: Assuming that, everyone...
Prabhupāda: Not assuming. This is the fact. [laughter] Indian man: No, assuming this end. I am putting a question.
Every man who took part in the Kurukṣetra war, assuming that they are to be killed, they are destined to be killed. Then when they are killed, then Kṛṣṇa's argument is the soul..., the body perishes but the soul is eternal. Prabhupāda: Soul is eternal... Indian man: ...the soul. How you are reconciling it if you say that the... I mean what a man is different from Kṛṣṇa?