several lives to reach it. He then had adopted the dogma that has since become authoritative in Christendom "salvation determined on a single life". Dogma, eminently debatable for different reasons:
How to speak of the goodness and mercy of God, if God is to condemn a being to eternal damnation on the judgment of a single life and, moreover, when from birth this fallen and disadvantaged being, has all the chances of to commit to the sinful way?
If the soul, the vital principle that animates the body, is eternal, as Christian dogma rightly affirms, why then limit oneself to "one life"?
The flaws and shortcomings of such a philosophy are obvious. Eternal damnation does not exist. It is the product of the fertile imagination of theologians devoid of true spiritual knowledge, who are ignorant of God. God, such is his goodness, gives, again and again, to infinity, to each and every one, the chance to return to Him. The real purpose of existence is to develop true spiritual knowledge, and many beings, in fact the majority, will need multiple lives before reaching it. Ultimately, the perfection of this knowledge is to escape the cycle of repeated deaths and rebirths and return to the spiritual world to serve God in the full love of his sublime person.
The mere fact of knowing the absolute nature of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, releases chains from the cycle of the dead and repeated rebirths. When he leaves his material body, the released being then returns to his original home in the Kingdom of God.
Let us abandon ourselves to Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, and serve Him with love and devotion and the death of our body, we will find our spiritual body through which we will enter the kingdom of Krishna, all of knowledge, bliss and eternity. This is the true resurrection.
Krishna, God, the Supreme Person says: "Only through devotional service, and only thus, can one know Me as I am. And the being who, by such devotion, becomes fully conscious of My Person, can then enter My absolute kingdom."