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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 12]
devotee, he also enters into Vaikuṇṭhaloka. Others, who engage in envious activities, are known as  karmīs .  Karmīs  are envious of one another. Simply for sense gratification, they can kill thousands of innocent animals.  Jñānīs  are not as sinful as  karmīs , but they do not try to reclaim others back to Godhead. They perform austerities for their own liberation.  Yogīs  are also engaged in self-aggrandizement by trying to attain mystic powers. But devotees, Vaiṣṇavas, who are servants of the Lord, come forward in the actual field of work in Kṛṣṇa consciousness to reclaim fallen souls. Only Kṛṣṇa conscious persons are eligible to enter into the spiritual world. That is clearly stated in this verse and is confirmed in the  Bhagavad-gītā , wherein the Lord says that there is no one dearer to Him than those who preach the gospel of  Bhagavad-gītā  to the world.
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शान्ताः समदृशः शुद्धाः सर्वभूतानुरञ्जनाः । 
  यान्त्यञ्जसाच्युतपदमच्युतप्रियबान्धवाः ॥३७॥
śāntāḥ samadṛśaḥ śuddhāḥ 
  sarva-bhūtānurañjanāḥ 
  yānty añjasācyuta-padam 
  acyuta-priya-bāndhavāḥ
śāntāḥ—peaceful; samadṛśaḥ—equipoised; śuddhāḥ—cleansed, purified; sarva—all; bhūta—living entities; anurañjanāḥ—pleasing; yānti—go; añjasā—easily; acyuta—of the Lord; padam—to the abode; acyuta-priya—with devotees of the Lord; bāndhavāḥ—friends.
TRANSLATION
Persons who are peaceful, equipoised, cleansed and purified, and who know the art of pleasing all other living entities, keep friendship only with devotees of the Lord; they alone can very easily achieve the perfection of going back home, back to Godhead.
PURPORT
The description of this verse fully indicates that only devotees are eligible to enter into the kingdom of Godhead. The first point stated is that devotees are peaceful, for they have no demands for their personal sense gratification. They are simply dedicated to the service of the Lord.  Karmīs  cannot be peaceful because they have immense demands for sense gratification. As for  jñānīs , they cannot be peaceful because they are too busy trying to attain liberation or merge into the existence of the Supreme.