Truly, the position of servant and handmaid of God is the highest there is.

It is when one truly establishes oneself in the loving and devoted service offered to Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, that one truly becomes independent.

So let us all return to live with God.

Human life has no other meaning than to enable the living being to develop Krishna consciousness, God consciousness.

What can one do to approach God and dwell with Him?

The Lord replies: Always fill your mind with Me and become My pious servant (My pious handmaid). Be faithful, devoted, without envy, and committed to My service. Simply surrender to Me. Have no fear, for I am with you. Do not look around with anxious eyes, for I am your God. I strengthen you, I come to your aid, I uphold you with My triumphant right hand.

Those who truly want to know God, see Him face to face, hear Him, and have the great honor of entering His heavenly abode, have only one thing to do: love Him with all their heart and soul, surrender themselves completely to Him, take pleasure in doing His divine will and pleasing Him, and serve Him with love and devotion.

This is the major key, the perfection of existence.

Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the ultimate rest of all that exists. Human life is meant to revive our eternal relationship with the Lord, and all religious injunctions serve to awaken this dormant nature of the living being. The sooner this awakening takes place, the sooner the human mission is realized.

Love for God remains latent in every being, and the entire process of devotional service offered to the Lord is designed to awaken our eternal love for Him. This spiritual awakening, however, takes place in varying degrees. Those whose love for God develops to the highest level of perfection reach the Lord's own planet, Goloka Vrindavana in the spiritual world, while those who have revived this love only incidentally or through spiritual contact reach the spiritual planets, called Vaikunthas. Basically, there is no material difference between Goloka and Vaikuntha; but on the Vaikuntha planets, the Lord is served in infinite opulence, whereas on Goloka, service to Him assumes the aspect of natural affection. This love for God is revived through contact with pure devotees of the Lord. All the actions of a pure being are performed in the name of the Lord, for a pure devotee has no personal interest. All those who awaken to the love of God reach the planets of this spiritual world.