The Lord says: He who attains the spiritual level at the same time realizes the Supreme Being and finds infinite joy in it. He never grieves, never aspires for anything. He is equal to all beings. He then gets to serve Me with pure love and devotion.

Through devotional service, and only then, can one know Me as I am. And the being who, through such devotion, becomes fully conscious of My Person, then enters My absolute kingdom.

Only by serving Me with undivided love and devotion can one know Me as I am, and likewise, in truth, see Me. Thus, and only thus, can one penetrate the mystery of My Person.

You may proclaim it with force, My devotee will never perish.

Liberation, also called salvation, is the liberation from the bodily and material concept of existence. It is the final abandonment of materialism, the rejection of all sense pleasures and desires, and the renunciation of the material world.

It is freedom from the anchorage in matter and the desire to dominate it.

It is choosing to surrender to God and to serve Him with love and devotion, against a background of pure Krishna consciousness.

Through this pure service of love and devotion offered to Krishna, the devotee can know, in truth, the absolute Attributes and Glories of the Supreme Lord. He then asserts himself as the eternal servant of Krishna.

Generally, once one has ascended to the level of transcendental bliss, one never falls back. However, even if one rises to the level of transcendental bliss, one can fall back down if one does not adopt devotional service.

The Lord adds: The devotional service offered to Me by living beings revives eternal life in them.

The spiritual path.

Among the three authorities on the spiritual path, we have the authentic spiritual master, the holy beings, and the Vedas, the original holy scriptures also called the true gospel.

Lord Krishna, God, the Supreme Person is the originator of the Vedas, since He is the Divine Author of the Vedas, hence the Vedas are the main authority.

It is for this reason that those who aspire to follow the spiritual path must study these spiritual books regularly. All these writings (the Bhagavad-gita or “Song of the Lord” or “Words of Krishna, Christ, God, the Supreme Person”, the Srimad-bhagavatam or “Words of Wisdom, the Wisdom of God”, and the Vedas) are, in reality, transcendental vibrations, which penetrate the hearts, in order to revive Krishna consciousness, the consciousness of God.