Krishna, God, the Supreme Person is the reservoir of all kinds of love exchanges. Full of unmotivated mercy, He desires to grant us the privilege of devotional service.
On each of the planets floating in the spiritual world, reigns as the Sovereign Master, Narayana, the plenary emanation of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person. There his devotees possess the same bodily features as his, and their devotion is marked by a sense of reverence.
However, beyond all these spiritual planets, there is another planet that floats above all the others, as big as all the spiritual planets put together, whose name is Goloka or Krishnaloka, where Krishna, God, the Supreme Person in his original personal form, manifests in free exchange of love the fullness of his blissful power.
This is where all of Krishna’s devotees go, offering Krishna a special devotional service, a deep and spontaneous love. In truth, devotional service is the manifestation of the love we feel for Krishna, which we offer to Him in a spontaneous outpouring of affection.
Lord Krishna says to this effect:
“I respond to the worship of My devotee according to the particular transcendental feeling that drives Him, this is My nature.
Depending on how men surrender to Me, I reward them in proportion. All follow My way, one way or another.
If anyone has pure devotion to Me, seeing Me as his son, his friend or his beloved, and considering me as his equal or his inferior, I become subordinate to Him.
The devotional service that living beings offer Me revives in them eternal life. [Addressing the ladies of Vraja and through them to us, Krishna said: Your happy fortune is none other than the love you have for Me, for He alone has enabled you to obtain My favor]
My mother sometimes ties me up like her own son. She feeds me, protects me, thinking that I am really without resources.
Out of pure friendship, My companions climb on My shoulders and cry out, What kind of great character are you? You and I are equal.
If My beloved One reproaches Me with a sullen air, My mind, fascinated, abandons the reverent hymns of the Vedas (the original holy scriptures)”.