What is the true purpose of human life?

Truly, human existence is meant to enable us to know Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as He truly is, to renew the bond of love that unites us with Him, to link our desires, interests, and plans with His, to regain the natural, spiritual, original, and eternal position we had with Him at the beginning of all things, to learn to understand Him better and to obey Him better by respecting His authority, to love Him, to do His divine will with great pleasure and readiness, to take refuge in Him, to surrender ourselves completely to Him, to take pleasure in serving Him with love and devotion, and to become conscious of Him.

The ultimate goal of existence is to seek Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, so as to finally reunite with Him in His eternal kingdom, in order to serve Him with love and devotion, with a heart filled with joy.

Such is the perfection of existence.

Truly, there is nothing that exists apart from Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Nor can anything exist without Lord Krishna.

Of all things in this world, material and spiritual, Lord Krishna is the origin and the end; everything rests upon Him. He is the All-Complete and Absolute. In Him abides all that exists.

Lord Krishna says of Himself: I know everything that has happened in the past and everything that will happen in the future. I know everything, but no one knows Me.

Truly, there is nothing that exists apart from Me; this is what you must clearly understand. I am the source of all that Is.

The first-class person is one who takes refuge in Me in complete surrender, and who, renouncing all forms of material pursuits, lives according to My teachings.

I am that Supreme Person, who existed before creation, when nothing existed but Myself, and the cause of creation, material nature, was not yet manifest. I am also the One who will remain after annihilation.

Before the creation of this cosmic manifestation, I alone exist with My own spiritual powers, to the exclusion of all gross, subtle, or causal phenomena. Consciousness was not yet manifest. After creation, I alone live in all things, and when the time of annihilation (the end of the world) comes, I alone remain forever.

We currently live in the material universe, which was created, has a limited duration, and will one day be annihilated.

So let us return to the spiritual world, which was never created, for it exists from all eternity and will never be destroyed. It is there that true eternal life, true uninterrupted happiness, and absolute peace are found.