With Faith and Fortitude
If you face life with fortitude only then will you attain God

Do not ever believe if someone tells you that if you hold your breath and chant mantras, you will attain God. If you face life with fortitude, calmly accepting everything as God’s blessings to you, regardless of whether they are positive or negative experiences in the worldly sense, only then will you attain God.
This is the truth that the lives of those like Prahalada, Appar Swami elucidate. No matter what the testing situations they faced, they were always chanting the name of the Lord. No wonder He granted Himself to them.
Flawless service to God is the purpose and sum essence of human life.