The Ultimate Goal of Research

According to the Brahma-samhita, Krsna's body is not made of atoms and molecules. And Sri Īsopanisad adds that His body contains no veins or other mechanical arrangements for maintaining itself. Krsna the person and Krsna's body are nondifferent. Therefore both Krsna and His body are eternal, without beginning or end, unlike our material bodies, which perish with the passage of time and molecular deterioration.

The spiritual world is non-dual. Non-dual does not mean, as some Vedantists say, that we are the same as God. "Non-dual" refers to the fact that in the spiritual world there is no qualitative difference between Krsna and His form, Krsna and His name, Krsna and His pastimes, Krsna and His abode. All are of the same eternal, blissful nature. In that eternal, blissful spiritual world, Krsna is engaged in playing lovingly with His devotees in varieties of relationships and affairs. Renowned scholars and speculative philosophers often interpret Krsna's personal life and loves as mythological, in the same way that the wranglers in the scientific arena interpret God as a creation of the mind of man. Actually Krsna is not man-made, nor are His activities mythological. Love of Krsna constitutes the ultimate goal of research and the perfection of all knowledge. Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita:

"After many births of speculative research, the truly intelligent man surrenders unto Me, Krsna, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare." (Bg.7.19)