Question: I have heard from a devotee that until we get kṛṣṇa-prema we have to come back to this material world. Or until we take birth in a dhāma, we will be back to this material world. But I have heard earlier that if we leave our body in dhāma we don’t come back to this material world. Please kindly enlighten gurudeva.

Jayapatākā Swami: Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā the verse that one who knows the transcendental nature of His appearance and activities, at the time of death, they come back to Him. Also, at the end of life, if someone chants Hare Kṛṣṇa he will go back to Godhead....