Text 90] Talks Between the Lord and Ramdananda Raya 139
TRANSLATION
“Lord Krsna told the gopis: ‘The means of attaining My favor is loving ser-
vice 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 Srimad-
Bhagavatam (10.82.45). There are two important words in this verse: bhakti
(devotional service) and amrtatva (eternal life). The aim of human life is to attain
the natural position of eternal life. This eternal life can be achieved only by devo-
tional service.
TEXT 90
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krsnera pratijfia drdha sarva-kale ache
ye yaiche bhaje, krsna tare bhaje taiche
SYNONYMS
krsnera—of Lord Krsna; pratijfid—the promise; drdha—firm; sarva-kale—in all
times; ache—there is; ye—anyone; yaiche—just as; bhaje—renders service;
krsna—Lord Krsna; tare—him; bhaje—reciprocates with; taiche—so for all time.
TRANSLATION
“Lord Krsna has made a firm promise for all time. If one renders service
unto Him, Krsna 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 Krsna 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
