In the prayer contained in the Harivamsa, Indra admits that she cannot understand Goloka's situation even after questioning Brahma. Devotees of Narayana, the emanation of Krishna, reach the Vaikuntha planets, but it is very difficult to reach Goloka Vrindavane. In reality, only devotees of Lord Chaitanya or Shri Krishna achieve this.

The Lord establishes that the word brahman means the best in everything. No one surpasses the Lord in wealth, power, fame, beauty, knowledge, and renunciation. Thus the word brahman designates God, Krishna, the Supreme Being. The Visnu Purana (sacred book) thus defines brahman: the infinitely great, whose capacity for deployment has no limit. One can try to imagine the greatness of Brahman, God, but it increases in such a way that no one can estimate it. One can realize God, the Supreme Being, under three aspects, which nevertheless form a single and unique Entity. The Absolute Truth, the Supreme Person, Krishna, exists from all eternity. He existed before the manifestation of the cosmos, He exists during its manifestation, and He will continue to exist after its annihilation. Therefore, He is the Soul of all higher things. Omnipresent witness, He embodies the Supreme form of all that is. The Vedic writings mention three spiritual paths to understanding and attaining the supreme perfection of Absolute Truth: the quest for knowledge, the yoga of supernormal powers, and devotional service. The followers of these three paths realize Absolute Truth in three different ways. Those who adopt the first path realize its impersonal aspect, called Brahman; those who prefer the second realize its localized aspect, called Supreme Soul; finally, those who practice devotional service realize that the Absolute Truth is none other than the Supreme Person, God, Shri Krishna. In other words, although the word brahman means Krishna and nothing else, spiritualists discover the Lord in three different ways depending on the path they take.

Devotional service develops in two stages. It is first approached from the angle of devotion governed by the regulatory principles and then at the higher level, one reaches the service of devotion imbued with pure love. God, the Supreme Person, embodies the Absolute Truth, but He also manifests through the deployment of various energies. Those who adhere to the regulatory principles of devotional service ultimately reach the Vaikuntha planets of the spiritual realm. But whoever comes to adhere to the principles of love in the practice of such service joins the supreme abode, Krishnaloka or Goloka.

There are also three orders of spiritualists. Those who are devoid of any material desire, those who seek to free themselves from the sufferings of matter, and those who aspire to material enjoyment. The most intelligent of spiritualists forsake all other paths to engage in the devotional service of the Lord, even if he is saturated with desire. One cannot attain the highest perfection through any spiritual activity, nor through self-interested action, the cultivation of knowledge, or the practice of power yoga, without adding a hint of devotion. Any spiritual path other than devotional service is akin to the fleshy appendages that hang from a goat's neck.