With the Greatest Delight

There is nothing more delightful, more enlivening than engaging in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead because such service connects one with his actual self. It is not a temporary ephemeral pleasure of the senses that fades away very quickly after being tasted. Rather it is permanent, lasting happiness, which goes on increasing more and more the longer that one engages in it. In short, there is no pleasure that equals or exceeds the pleasure of devotional service.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Ultimate Goal of the Living Being

What is the ultimate goal for the jivatma, the living being ?
Is it to be one with the Paramatma? Is it to lose his identity?

Ravi

Answer: To Regain His Original Identity

Before understanding the ultimate goal of the living being we first must understand that the ultimate source of existence is a person. He has to be a person, otherwise so many persons cannot not be coming out from Him. The ultimate goal then of the jivatma, the individual living being, is to become fully reconnected with that original person, the Paramatma. Since we become connected with another person only through developing a loving relationship with that person, our ultimate goal is to revive our lost loving relationship with the Supreme Person, the source of all existence, the Paramatma who is known by the most advanced yogis as Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So spiritual perfection does not mean losing one's identity or merging with the Paramatma. It means instead to regain one's actual perpetual identity as Lord Sri Krishna's eternal servant

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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