Direct love for Krishna surpasses impersonal meditation; each devotee reaches their destined spiritual realm through genuine devotional attachment.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation — July 19, 1973, London 730719R1-LONDON [07:02 Minutes] Conv_730719R1-LONDON Prabhupāda: ...tad-gatena manasā paśyanti yaṁ yoginaḥ [SB 12.13.1]. Paśyanti, this word is there. Yoginaḥ paśyanti, they see; dhyānāvasthita, by meditation. Revatīnandana: This is the Sixth Chapter Bhagavad-gītā?
Prabhupāda: No, this is in Bhāgavata. Revatīnandana: I see. But that seeing...
Prabhupāda: That seeing is not ānanda. Seeing is ānanda, undoubtedly, but seeing and talking and becoming friend, that is higher. Friend or conjugal lover, father, mother, that kind of seeing is different. Revatīnandana: If that yogī quits his body in that condition, does he attain a Vaikuṇṭha planet?
Prabhupāda: Yes. [break] Revatīnandana: Is it possible that if he was not... This is a question that sometimes a devotee has asked me. If a yogī does attain a Vaikuṇṭha planet, but by his constitutional nature he is meant to be associated with Kṛṣṇa in Goloka...
Prabhupāda: No, why not with Viṣṇu? Revatīnandana: But some... No.
Prabhupāda: Vaikuṇṭha is Viṣṇu, Nārāyaṇa. That is also... But there Nārāyaṇa is worshiped with awe and veneration. He is God.
No friendship, as in Vṛndāvana. That is not possible. Revatīnandana: The question is like... Prabhupāda: Vipralambha-sakhya. Aiśvarya, aiśvarya, opulence. There the Supreme Lord is taken in aiśvarya, opulences.