Liberation from Material Planets 35

than any other avatara, even Krsna Himself, because
He is bestowing freely what no one else has ever
given—pure love of Krsna.’’ Rupa Gosvami called
Caitanya Mahaprabhu “the most munificent, the
most charitable personality,” because He was offer-
ing the most precious thing of all very cheaply—love
of God. We all want Krsna and are all hankering
after Him. Krsna is the most attractive, the most
beautiful, the most opulent, the most powerful and
the most learned. That is the object of our hankering.
We’re hankering after the beautiful, the powerful,
the learned, the wealthy. Krsna is the reservoir of all
of this, so we need only turn our attention toward
Him, and we will get everything. Everything—what-
ever we want. Whatever is our heart’s desire will be
fulfilled by this process of Krsna consciousness.

For one who dies in Krsna consciousness, as stated
before, entrance into Krsnaloka, the supreme abode
where Krsna resides, is guaranteed. At this point one
may ask what the advantage is in going to that
planet, and Krsna Himself answers:

mam upetya punar janma
duhkhalayam asasvatam

napnuvanti mahatmanah
samsiddhim paramam gatah

“After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogis in
devotion, never return to this temporary world,
which is full of miseries, because they have attained
the highest perfection.” (Bg. 8.15)
