Q59. What is the reward for following Sanatan-Dharma?

The reward for following the eternal religion (Sanatan-Dharma) is that one will be able to describe God, know Him, and attain love of God. In every Kali Yuga (the age of irreligion), man-made ideologies with the aim of materialistic desires (wanting money/things), sense-gratification (wanting wine and women), and where God is not described are spread by deception. The result of following ideologies which offer sense-gratification is that one stays in the material creation for millions of lifetimes, to satisfy the materialistic desires. Material life means suffering one way or another. One may be rich in one life and a beggar in another, healthy in one life and severely diseased in another. Life after life, people suffer in one form or another. This is confirmed by the person who has created the material creation (Lord Krishna) and this can also be confirmed by any person in the material creation. Material life is full of miseries. “Everyone on the lowest planet to the highest planet of Brahmaloka, in the material creation is subjected to the miseries of repeated birth and death. But those who attain Me [Krishna], never take birth again." (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-Gita 8.16) Those who attain love of God, are liberated from material life at the end of this short life and enjoy an eternal life full of bliss/love, full of knowledge, with no trace of misery, and see God face to face every day. “Just become My devotee, always think of Me, bow down to Me, and worship Me. Then you will come to Me, without fail. I promise you this, as you are very dear to Me.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-Gita 18.65) “My supreme abode is not illuminated by the sun, moon, fire, or electricity. Those who go there, never come back to this material creation.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-Gita 15.6)