All who take refuge in Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, enjoy sublime peace. The spiritual world is studded with countless planets, and the Lord, through His equally countless plenary emanations, reigns over each one. As for the pure beings who dwell there, they enjoy the same benefits as the Lord and His eternal companions. Krishna is the absolute source of bliss and the fountain of all happiness. Throughout his infinite realm, he radiates true, permanent, and uninterrupted spiritual bliss through the all-powerful goddess Radharani, her inner energy and power of happiness. If we come into contact with her, we can experience this endless, transcendental joy. All the great pure souls who dwell with Krishna in his absolute realm are filled with bliss and experience ineffable happiness.
Because the spiritual being, also called the spiritual soul or the infinite fragment of God, is eternal, true happiness can only be found in the eternal realm of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, from which no one returns to this material world of endless birth, sickness, old age, and death.
He who understands the depth of this truth truly deserves to be called learned. He will know how to sacrifice all the illusory and fleeting pleasures of this material world to reach the only desirable goal: absolute happiness, which can only be obtained from God, for He is the true and absolute source of happiness and bestows it upon all who live with Him for eternity.
How can we attain true and eternal happiness?
If we want to know true happiness, we absolutely must return to God. It is an absolute necessity.
True happiness does not exist in the material universe, hence the compelling need to return to God, to our original home, located in His eternal and absolute kingdom. The Lord desires that each of His integral parts return to the divine kingdom, to enjoy there eternally an existence of complete bliss.
This is the true meaning of the creation of the material world.
In truth, existence in this material world is intended to allow us to know the compelling need to return to God, and to understand that true and lasting happiness does not exist in the material universe. Wherever we go in the material cosmos, whatever planets make up the countless galaxies, we will find true happiness nowhere.
It is only with Krishna, God, the Supreme Person, that we will find true, perfect, total, permanent, and unending happiness, for the Lord is its original source and divine giver.
The intelligent person must be mindful of the imperative need to return to God, to His original abode, and must absolutely guard against ever forming futile, illusory plans, nor seeking happiness in a place where it is merely an illusion, a myth.
The three attributes and modes of influence of material nature—virtue, passion, and ignorance—manifest themselves as matter, knowledge, and action, and impose upon the eternally spiritual being conditions of cause and effect, making them responsible for their actions in the material world.