What does it mean to “become one with God”?

Truly, to become one with Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is to link our desires and interests with those of the Lord.

What is the purpose of the human form?

The human form is meant to free oneself from material bondage.

As long as man remains absorbed in self-interested action, his thoughts will always be swept away in the whirlwind of material energy, hence his successive imprisonment in various material bodies.

Man must therefore live for the sole purpose of returning to God, to His original abode, so as to no longer assume any ephemeral material body whatsoever, whether pleasant or unpleasant, thus putting an end to the cycle of repeated death and rebirth in this world. True intelligence is that which leads man to understand that the only perspective he has is that of desiring to lead his existence for this sole purpose.

Let us always remember that material creation exists only for the salvation of conditioned souls. It is indeed for this purpose that, through His causeless mercy, the Lord descends upon various planets of this world and displays His spiritual and absolute acts there.

Souls forever conditioned by matter are inclined to subjugate material nature.

This is why the material cosmic creation is designed for these conditioned souls for two reasons: first, they can satisfy their tendency to rule over the osmic manifestation, and second, they are granted the opportunity to return to Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

After the dissolution or “end of the world” of the cosmic manifestation, most conditioned souls merge into the existence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is then plunged into a mystical sleep, and they will manifest again in the next creation.

However, those who have obeyed the transcendent sound of the original holy scriptures and who have qualified to return to Godhead will regain their original spiritual bodies after leaving their material sheaths of dense, ethereal matter.

The forgetfulness of the relationship that unites incarnate beings to God is at the origin of the material bodies they must assume. But in His infinite mercy, the Lord, through various Avatars, gives birth to the original holy scriptures to help these conditioned souls regain their original position on the occasion of the cosmic manifestation. The material forms, of dense and ethereal matter, are due solely to the ignorance of the conditioned soul, and as soon as the being abandons himself to the loving service of the Lord, he is immediately freed from this bondage.