In truth, the service of love and devotion offered to Lord Krishna fills the pure soul with two major graces, peace and fullness.
The devotional service offered to the Lord fills the pure soul with two major graces, peace and fullness. She then enjoys the company of the Perfect One, Krishna, God, and experiences perfect peace and satisfaction.
To reach the love of God, one must be perfectly free from all other aspiration. We reach the level of love for God through pure devotional service, learning to work with love for the object of our love, for Krishna, the Supreme Person.
Those who reach the kingdom of God will never return to the material universe where fear, anxiety, suffering and death reign. The highest perfection of existence is only that of living in the company of the Lord.
The Lord says in this regard: “He who knows the Absolute of my coming and my Acts will no longer have to be reborn in the material universe. After leaving his body, he will enter my eternal kingdom.
When they have reached me, the holy beings imbued with devotion, these noble souls, having thus risen to the highest perfection, never again return to this ephemeral world where suffering reigns”.
Chanting the Holy Names of Krishna is the best way to achieve absolute existence. The ultimate good is love for Krishna, God, the Supreme Person. The ultimate goal and supreme fruit of chanting or reciting the Krishna hymn is to perfectly realize who God is, and to develop pure love for Him.
The more our consciousness is purified by chanting the Holy Names of Krishna, the more our constant spiritual progress will be reflected in our conduct. As soon as the sun appears on the horizon, it is accompanied by ever-increasing heat and light. Similarly, as the realization of the Holy Name of Krishna awakens in our heart, this growing spiritual consciousness manifests itself in all facets of our personality.
Finally, the bond of eternal love that unites God and the living being is restored.
Before descending into the material universe, each soul enjoyed a unique spiritual relationship with the Lord. This bond of love surpasses a thousand times in its intensity, all material love.
Pure love for Krishna, God, the Supreme Person exists from all eternity in the hearts of all beings. We don’t have to draw it out of ourselves. And when the heart is purified by the chanting of the Holy Names and listening to the glories of the Supreme Lord, the being then awakens naturally.
Our natural and eternal condition in the spiritual world allows us to live in the intimate presence of God and to serve him with love and devotion. The pure devotee and the pure devotee, who experience such spiritual affection for the Supreme Lord, Krishna, bathe in transcendental ecstasy.
It is then that the heart becomes resplendent like the sun, for when the devotee and the devotee thus become pure, from their hearts emanate rays of ecstatic love, emanations of love for God.