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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 27]
energy of unadulterated bliss. That is the ultimate perfectional goal of the living entity. After giving up the present material body, the mystic devotee goes to that transcendental abode and never comes back.
PURPORT
Actual self-realization means becoming a pure devotee of the Lord. The existence of a devotee implies the function of devotion and the object of devotion. Self-realization ultimately means to understand the Personality of Godhead and the living entities; to know the individual self and the reciprocal exchanges of loving service between the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the living entity is real self-realization. This cannot be attained by the impersonalists or other transcendentalists; they cannot understand the science of devotional service. Devotional service is revealed to the pure devotee by the unlimited causeless mercy of the Lord. This is especially spoken of here by the Lord—“ mat-prasādena ,” “by My special grace.” This is also confirmed in  Bhagavad-gītā . Only those who engage in devotional service with love and faith receive the necessary intelligence from the Supreme Personality of Godhead so that gradually and progressively they can advance to the abode of the Personality of Godhead.
Niḥśreyasa  means the ultimate destination.  Sva-saṁsthāna  means that the impersonalists have no particular place to stay. The impersonalists sacrifice their individuality so that the living spark can merge into the impersonal effulgence emanating from the transcendental body of the Lord, but the devotee has a specific abode. The planets rest in the sunshine, but the sunshine itself has no particular resting place. When one reaches a particular planet, then he has a resting place. The spiritual sky, which is known as  kaivalya , is simply blissful light on all sides, and it is under the protection of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As stated in  Bhagavad-gītā ,  brahmaṇo hi pratiṣṭhāham : the impersonal Brahman effulgence rests on the body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In other words, the bodily effulgence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is  kaivalya , or impersonal Brahman. In that impersonal effulgence there are spiritual planets, which are known as  Vaikuṇṭha , chief of which is  Kṛṣṇaloka . Some devotees are elevated to the  Vaikuṇṭha  planets, and some are elevated to the planet of  Kṛṣṇaloka . According to the desire of the particular devotee, he is offered a particular abode, which is known as  sva-saṁsthāna , his desired destination. By the grace of the Lord the self-realized devotee engaged in devotional service understands his destination even while in the material body. He therefore performs his devotional activities steadily,