The magnificence of the spiritual world.

Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, reigns supreme over immortality. The Lord wants the human being to have a precise idea of his eternal and absolute kingdom.

The spiritual world, which is manifested by the internal energy of God, covers three quarters of all creation, the other quarter being represented by the material cosmos. The planets of the spiritual world are at least three times more numerous than those of the material cosmos, and they all possess a totally spiritual nature. The concept of spiritual bliss is there manifested in all its fullness. Each of these spiritual planets is absolute, indestructible and free from all imperfections related to this material world. Each produces its own radiance, which equals the inconceivable radiance of millions of suns combined.

Those who live there are free from old age, sickness, death and rebirth, and their perfect knowledge encompasses everything. They are pure and free from all forms of desire. Like the Lord Himself, their spiritual body is all knowledge, bliss and eternity. There they act only to offer the Sovereign Lord of the spiritual planets a sublime service of love. These liberated beings are constantly singing wonderful spiritual songs to the glory of Lord Krishna.

The kingdom of God is spiritual, infinite and absolute. In this absolute kingdom the Lord and his eternal servants all possess forms of propitious character, infallible, spiritual, and eternal youth. In short, there is no birth, disease, old age or death. This eternal land, rich in spiritual pleasures, conceals beauty and bliss.

Master of immortality and therefore immortal Himself, Krishna, God, the Supreme Person can confer this quality on his devotees. Also, those who reach his immortal home will never again have to return to this material world where death and suffering reign.

This suffering shines by its absence in the eternal kingdom of God, forever free from the influence of eternal time, and consequently from all fear. True happiness is inherent in the spiritual world. The absolute kingdom is by its very nature saturated with happiness, with ever increasing happiness through the force of ever renewed appreciation. There, the bliss never dulls.

True permanent happiness lies where Krishna, God, the Supreme Person is, for He is the inexhaustible and eternal source of it.

(For more information, see the book “The Spiritual World”)