Taking to Krṣṇa Consciousness
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to be cheated, Krṣṇa will send us a cheater, and we will be cheated throughout our lives. That is actually going on. For those who do not want to understand Krṣṇa as He is but want to understand by dint of their own imperfect vision, Krṣṇa, God, remains unknown.
The whole process is to accept Krṣṇa and His instructions and therefore to render devotional service unto Him. It is Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī who is the very embodiment of perfect devotional service. In the  Brahma-saṁhitā  Rādhārāṇī is described as Krṣṇa's expansion of His spiritual potency. In this way, She is nondifferent from Krṣṇa. The  gopīs , who tend Rādhā and Krṣṇa, are not ordinary women or girls; they are expansions of Krṣṇa's pleasure potency. Rādhārāṇī and the  gopīs  should never be accepted as ordinary women; indeed, to understand their position we need the guidance of a spiritual master. If we living entities want to actually associate with Rādhārāṇī, that may be possible, although She is not an ordinary woman. We can become associates of Rādhārāṇī by qualifying ourselves in advanced devotional service.
In devotional service there is no frustration; even if we perform only a small amount, it will grow. Devotional service is never lost. As far as material things are concerned, whatever we gain in the world will be lost when the body is finished. But since we are eternal spiritual sparks, our spiritual assets go with us, gradually fructifying. In this way those who have previously cultivated transcendental consciousness come in contact with Krṣṇa consciousness