Also, knowing Krishna as He truly, is allows one who has attained the state of sainthood, the devotee, to obtain knowledge of all things.

Similarly, by visiting the supreme planet of Lord Krishna, one can know all the other planetary systems that lie on the path to Vaikuntha, the spiritual world, where everything is full of knowledge, bliss, and eternity.

In truth, the supreme planet, Krishnaloka, the one where Krishna, God, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, permanently resides, is larger than all the spiritual planets combined, and all of them float in the spiritual sky below the planet of Godhead. The spiritual world is three times larger than the material cosmos.

How do we reach the spiritual world? Who leads us there?

Only the spiritual body allows the soul to enter the kingdom of God.

When the purified, holy being is ready, what is commonly called death occurs, but which is ultimately only a sudden change of body. A pure soul experiences, at the moment of death, the annihilation of its two bodies: the gross material body and the ethereal body in which the soul is enclosed.

At the moment of death, the spiritual fire burns the gross material body, and if one no longer feels any desire for material enjoyment, the ethereal body is also annihilated. Only the pure soul then remains. It then obtains a spiritual body through which it will enter the kingdom of God. One who frees himself from the shackles that bound him in these two material bodies, the gross matter and the ethereal, and remains in the state of a pure soul, returns to God, to his original abode in the spiritual world or kingdom of Lord Krishna, to enter into the service of Krishna.

For the pure sage, this change is comparable to lightning, which is simultaneously accompanied by a bright light. Through supreme will, he develops a spiritual body the very moment he leaves the material body.

Note, however, that even before death, the pure sage is freed from all material attachments and, due to his constant contact with Lord Krishna, possesses a fully spiritualized body.

Now, one who succeeds in returning to the spiritual world abandons both material bodies, the fleshly and ethereal, inherent in the material universe, and returns there in his or her pure spiritual body. There, he or she is assigned a permanent abode on one of the innumerable spiritual planets.

Those who desire to live in the company of Godhead, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in his transcendental form as Narayana, the plenary emanation of Krishna on the spiritual planets, or in his primordial form as Krishna on the supreme planet Krishnaloka, enter these abodes, from where they never return to the material universe.