Text 001
Talks Between the Lord and Rāmānanda Rāya
129
TBANSLATION
“Lord Kṛṣṇa told the gopīs: ‘The means of attaining My favor is loving service unto Me, and fortunately you are all thus engaged. Those living beings who render service unto Me are eligible to be transferred to the spiritual world and attain eternal life with knowledge and bliss.’
PURPORT
The fulfillment of human life is summarized in this verse from  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  (10.82.45). There are two important words in this verse:  bhakti  (devotional service) and  amṛtatva  (eternal life). The aim of human life is to attain the natural position of eternal life. This eternal life can be achieved only by devotional service.
TEXT 90
কৃষ্ণের প্রতিজ্ঞা দৃঢ় সর্বকালে আছে। যে যৈছে ভজে, কৃষ্ণ তারে ভজে তৈছে ॥ ৯০ ॥
krṣṇera pratijñā dṛḍha sarva-kāle āche ye yaiche bhaje, krṣṇa tāre bhaje taiche
SYNONYMS
krṣṇera —of Lord Krṣṇa;  pratijñā —the promise;  dṛḍha —firm;  sarva-kāle —in all times;  āche —there is;  ye —anyone;  yaiche —just as;  bhaje —renders service;  krṣṇa —Lord Krṣṇa;  tāre —him;  bhaje —reciprocates with;  taiche —so for all time.
TRANSLATION
“Lord Krṣṇa has made a firm promise for all time. If one renders service unto Him, Krṣṇa correspondingly gives him an equal amount of success in devotional service to the Lord.
PURPORT
It is a completely mistaken idea that one can worship Kṛṣṇa in any form or in any way and still attain the ultimate result by receiving the favor of the Lord. This is a decision made by gross materialistic men. Generally such men say that you can manufacture your own way of worshiping the Supreme Lord and that any type of worship is sufficient to approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Certainly there are different means for attaining different results in fruitive activity, speculative knowledge, mystic yoga, and austerity. Crude men therefore say that if one adopts any of these methods, one achieves the Supreme Personality of Godhead's favor. They claim that it doesn't matter what kind of method one