Those who really want to know God, to see him face to face, to hear him, and to have the honor of entering his home heavenly, have only one thing to do: to love him with all their heart and with all their soul, to surrender themselves completely to him, to take pleasure in doing his divine will and to satisfy him, and to serve him with love. and devotion.
This is the major key, the perfection of existence.
In this material universe, there are as many living beings (embodied souls) as there are atoms. Among them, very few are human beings, and among these, very few care to follow religious principles.
When God placed the souls eager to enjoy the pleasures of their senses in the material universe, in his benevolence He also took care to transmit to them the knowledge in parallel, so that they learn to know better the Sovereign Lord, and that they obtain all the facilities at the same time that they are instructed on the way of salvation, with a view to return to his absolute kingdom. The real world is the kingdom of God, and true existence is with Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, and nowhere else.
The material universe is, in truth, an ephemeral world, which will one day disappear, where true happiness does not exist, and where suffering is permanent. It is called the world of impermanence.
Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, is the ultimate rest of all that exists. Human life is intended to rekindle our eternal relationship with the Lord, and all religious injunctions serve to awaken this sleepy nature of the living being. The faster this awakening takes place, the sooner the mission of the human being is realized.
Love for God remains latent in every being, and the complete process of devotional service to the Lord is designed to awaken our undying love for Him. However, this spiritual awakening takes place in varying degrees. Those whose love for God grows to the highest level of perfection reach the Lord's own planet, Goloka Vrindavana in the spiritual realm, while those who have only rekindled this love incidentally or through spiritual contact gain the spiritual planets, say Vaikunthas. Basically, there is no material difference between Goloka and Vaikuntha; but on the Vaikuntha planets the Lord is served in infinite opulence, while in Goloka the service offered to Him takes on the aspect of natural affection. This love for God is rekindled by contact with pure devotees of the Lord. Besides, all the acts of a pure being are done in the name of the Lord, because a pure devotee has no personal interest. Everyone who awakens to the love of God reaches the planets of this spiritual world.
Happy are those who adopt the path of austerity, for the latter is in truth the beauty and the wealth of the devotees of God, and of the order of renunciation of this world of matter. Austerity is the one and only goal of existence for all human beings, for it alone realizes the true self. However, the goal of existence is precisely to achieve self-