The Highest Love
“Spiritual life means to be in association with the Supreme Lord and to exist in
bliss and knowledge eternally. Such eternal association means to play with
Krsna, to dance with and love Krsna. Or Krsna can become your child—
whatever you like. ... Unless one can love Krsna, unless one finishes with
love for cats, dogs, country, nation, and society and instead concentrates his
love on Krsna, there is no question of happiness....”

If one protects the tender creeper of devotional service nicely, then
gradually it will produce the fruit of unalloyed love for God. Unalloyed
love for God means love that is not tinged by desire for material benefit,
for mere philosophical understanding, nor for fruitive results. Unalloyed
love is to know, ‘‘God is great, I am His part and parcel, and therefore He
is my supreme lovable object.’’ This consciousness is the highest perfec-
tion of human life and the ultimate aim of all methods of self-realization.
If one reaches this point—God is my only beloved, Krsna is the only
lovable object—then one’s life is perfect. And when one tastes that tran-
scendental relationship with Krsna, then one feels real happiness. The
devotional creeper will then be so strongly protected that just by catching
hold of it, one will be able to reach the supreme destination. If one climbs
steadily up a tree, one eventually comes to the very top. Similarly, if one
can achieve love of Godhead by catching that devotional creeper, there is
no doubt that one will reach the transcendental abode of Krsna and will
associate with Him personally, just as we are associating here, face to
face.

God is not fictional or imaginary. He is as real as we are. (Actually, we
are under illusion; we are living as if this body were our factual self, al-
though this body is not at all reality, but only a temporary manifestation.)
We dare to presume that there is no God or that He has no form. This ;
mental speculation is due to a poor fund of knowledge. Lord Krsna and
His abode exist, and one can go there, reach Him, and associate with
Him. That is a fact. Spiritual life means to be in association with the
Supreme Lord and to exist in bliss and knowledge eternally. Such eternal

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