# The Goal *On the ultimate destination of the soul* --- ### Back to Home > The perfection of life is to go back to home, back to Godhead. That is the perfection. Not to remain in this material world and suffer birth, death, old age, and disease. That is not perfection. — [[spoken/1972/721017sb.vrn|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.6, Vṛndāvana, 1972]] --- ### Never Return > Yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama. Once you go to Kṛṣṇa's abode, you don't come back. You remain there eternally. That is the perfection of life. — [[spoken/1972/721017sb.vrn|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.6, Vṛndāvana, 1972]] --- ### Eternal Blissful Life > In the spiritual world there is no birth, no death, no old age, no disease. These four kinds of miseries are absent there. Everyone is eternally living, full of knowledge and bliss. That is the spiritual world. — [[spoken/1968/680816jm.mon|Janmāṣṭamī Lecture, Montreal, 1968]] --- ### Original Home > The spiritual world is our original home. We have come from there. We are all children of Kṛṣṇa, and Kṛṣṇa's abode is the spiritual world. So we have to go back. This is the mission of human life. — [[spoken/1968/680816jm.mon|Janmāṣṭamī Lecture, Montreal, 1968]] --- ### With Kṛṣṇa > The goal is to be with Kṛṣṇa. To serve Kṛṣṇa eternally. To love Kṛṣṇa eternally. That is the goal. Not to enjoy separately from Kṛṣṇa. That is māyā. — [[spoken/1970/700508ip.la|Śrī Īśopaniṣad, Mantra 6, Los Angeles, 1970]] --- ### No More Material Body > There is no other way to escape death and old age and birth. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya. If you always think of Kṛṣṇa, then you are guaranteed that after leaving this body, there is no more material body. — [[spoken/1972/721017sb.vrn|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.6, Vṛndāvana, 1972]] --- ### Prema-pumartho Mahān > The highest goal is love of God. Prema-pumartho mahān. All other goals—dharma, artha, kāma, mokṣa—are secondary. The primary goal is love of God. — [[spoken/1972/721017sb.vrn|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.6, Vṛndāvana, 1972]] --- ### Getting Out > The whole Vedic civilization is how to get out of this material world. Not how to improve material conditions. That is not possible. You may improve for some time, but again you will fall down. So the real business is how to get out. — [[spoken/1972/721017sb.vrn|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.6, Vṛndāvana, 1972]] --- ### Serve Eternally > In the spiritual world, we serve Kṛṣṇa eternally. There is no end to that service. And that service is full of bliss. It is not like material service, which is full of anxiety. — [[spoken/1969/690510r1.col|Room Conversation, Columbus, 1969]] --- ### Everything Is There > In the spiritual world, everything is there—trees, rivers, mountains, flowers, birds—but everything is spiritual. Everything is conscious. Everything is serving Kṛṣṇa. That is our destination. — [[spoken/1970/700508ip.la|Śrī Īśopaniṣad, Mantra 6, Los Angeles, 1970]] --- *10 quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on the goal* [[wiki/quotes|Back to Quotes]]