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infallible, and it is the supreme destination. When one goes there, he never comes back. That is My supreme abode.” (Bg. 8.21)
A great journey is indicated in this verse. We have to be able to penetrate outer space, traverse the material universe, penetrate its covering and enter the spiritual sky.  Paramāṁ gatim —that journey is supreme. There is no question of going a few thousand miles away from this planet and then returning. This sort of journey is not very heroic. We have to penetrate the whole material universe. This we cannot do by spaceships but by Kṛṣṇa consciousness. One who is absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and who at the time of death thinks of Kṛṣṇa is at once transferred there. If we at all want to go to that spiritual sky and cultivate eternal blissful life full of knowledge, we will have to begin now to cultivate a  sac-cid-ānanda  body. It is said that Kṛṣṇa has a  sac-cid-ānanda  body— īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ —and we also have a similar body of eternity, knowledge and bliss, but it is very small and is covered by the dress of matter. If somehow or other we are able to give up this false dress, we can reach that spiritual kingdom. If once we can attain that spiritual world, return is not necessary ( yaṁ prāpya na nivartante ).
Everyone then should try to go to that  dhāma paramam —Kṛṣṇa’s supreme abode. Kṛṣṇa Himself comes to call us, and He gives us literatures as guidebooks and sends His bona fide representatives. We should take advantage of this facility given to human life. For one who reaches that supreme abode, pen-