Somehow or other, a few people, out of many millions and thousands, they come to the understanding that what is the real perfection of life. Now, those who are actually perfected, out of them, out of millions of them, one can understand Kṛṣṇa. That is the statement of Bhagavad-gītā:
- manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu
- kaścid yatati siddhaye
- yatatām api siddhānām
- (BG 7.3)
Siddhānām means those who are already achieved perfection. Out of them—not these imperfect fools—those who are actually attained perfection, they can understand what Kṛṣṇa is actually, tattvataḥ. And that actual position can be understood . . . in another place in Bhagavad-gītā it says, bhaktyā mām abhijānāti (BG 18.55): "What He is actually, that can be understood by this devotional service, no other process." No other process will help to understand Kṛṣṇa.
You can . . . by other processes you can achieve some other things, but if you want to know Kṛṣṇa, then you have to understand through your devotional service. Bhaktyā mām abhijānāti yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ: "As I am." Tato māṁ tattvato jñātvā (BG 18.55). So you will have entrance into the spiritual kingdom, into the abode of Kṛṣṇa when you have perfectly . . . we cannot understand perfectly, but as far as possible, as far we have got the capacity, if we understand Kṛṣṇa as He is, then the entrance will be there. Otherwise there is no entrance.