The devotional service offered to God allows access to true independence, to true freedom.

Only devotional service allows us to approach God.

Lord Krishna confirms this with these words: “Only through devotional service, and only in this way, can one know Me as I am. And the being who by such devotion becomes fully aware of My Person can then enter My absolute kingdom.

It is only by serving Me with undivided love and devotion that one can know Me as I am, standing before you and even, in truth, seeing Me. Thus, and only in this way, can the mystery of My Person be unravelled”.

Only devotional service can lead the incarnate spiritual being that each of us really is, to Krishna, God, the Supreme Person.

Only devotional service can enable the saint, the realized soul, to meet the Lord face to face.

In truth, God is attracted by devotional service, so it is in mastering this science that the Vedic knowledge of the Vedas, the original scriptures, also called the “true gospel” culminates.

What, then, is this particular seduction that devotional service so strongly exerts upon Krishna, the Sovereign Lord, and what is the nature of this sublime service?

Verily, Krishna, God, the Supreme Person is self-sufficient, and Maya, his illusion energy can never affect Him, in any way. Therefore, the power that surpasses the Lord must be purely spiritual, and therefore cannot belong to material manifestation.

The bliss enjoyed by Lord Krishna is not material in nature. In reality, devotional service is an exchange of love between two people, and it cannot be found only in oneself. This is why the joy of self-realization cannot be compared to devotional service.

The Lord has three varieties of internal energies: pleasure power or bliss power, existential power, and cognitive power.