How to become conscious of Krishna, God, the Supreme Personality?
Truly, being conscious of Krishna, God, the Supreme Personality, is realizing that Krishna is indeed God, the Eternal Sovereign, in His personal, primordial, original, infinite, absolute form, and that He is the Absolute Truth. He is eternally young.
It is knowing that He is omnipresent, that He is everywhere. That He is omnipotent, that He is all-powerful. That He is omniscient, that He knows everything. That He is immutable, that He does not change.
It is knowing that He is absolute existence, absolute consciousness, absolute bliss, absolute perfect knowledge, and eternity personified. It is the knowledge that He resides in the hearts of all living beings, celestial beings, human beings, animals, and plants, and enlivens the body, senses, vital breath, and heart of each of them, and causes them to come alive.
It is the knowledge that He is the sole true owner of all that exists in the material cosmos and the material world, and the sole beneficiary of all the fruits of the deeds of all living beings.
It is the knowledge that He is the Absolute Master, and that all individual beings are distinct from Him, tiny fragments of His person, including celestial beings. This is why we are all subordinate to Him, and our sole duty is to serve Him with love and devotion.
It is the knowledge that through His contact, we are immersed in pure transcendental light permanently, perfect joy continuously and without interruption, and eternal life. It is knowing that true opulence is one's own nature as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, manifested through six unlimited opulences: beauty, wealth, fame, power, wisdom, and renunciation.
This is Krishna consciousness.
Consciousness is the energy of the soul, and the soul, through its various incarnations, acquires data that it stores and preserves, enriching its knowledge and gradually enabling it to reach a higher level.
The soul, in each of its incarnations, if it develops divine knowledge through its search for God, increases its spiritual level each time.
In the material universe, incarnate beings have different ideas, and those of a person with developed consciousness differ from those of another with undeveloped consciousness. If a person becomes Krishna conscious shortly after birth, it must be understood that they had once meditated on the Supreme Lord.
Lord Krishna said to this effect: Then, he regains the divine consciousness acquired in his past life and resumes his march towards perfection. No effort in this path entails the slightest loss, and any progress, however modest, prevents the most formidable danger.
The development of our Krishna consciousness or God consciousness is never lost; it increases until perfection.
There are different degrees of knowledge. A person with limited knowledge will confine himself to material knowledge, unaware that higher knowledge exists, this one of a spiritual nature. And depending on the developed state of consciousness, one will stop at material knowledge, while another, having developed a higher consciousness, will turn to spiritual knowledge, which elevates the being.
The wise know that it is through contact with Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, that he acquires perfect knowledge, becomes conscious of the Lord, enriches his intellect, and attains purity of being.
Truly, we can learn everything from God by learning the true knowledge that He Himself teaches. Our knowledge will then be perfect.