THE VISION OF VRNDAVAN
 All glories To HDG Srila Bhakti Promode Puri Goswami Maharaj

All glories to HDG Srila BhaktiSiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada
Ordinarily if we were to evaluate the holy Vrndavana Dham as within the scope of our external senses then then definitely we are speaking of the Northwest portion of presently the country India  and  in the district of Mathura. .Anybody can go there by train and  there giving full vent to our taste buds as eating mango pickles and betel and touring the holy places supposedly in satisfying our external senses as the beautiful sights and sounds and when returning back to our domicile proceed to tell your friends how he had just visited the holy land of Vrndavan. Unfortunately the great souls do not consider much of this type of vision  without there being any actual service done to the holy land. Irrespective of the place they stay ,the great souls are always engaged in the service of Sri Radha Krishna in complete surrender to the instructions of Lord Gaura Sundara ,the  non differenciated form of the Supreme Lord. In this mood , they are always residing in Goloka Vrndavana wherever they may be. An unalloyed devotee is established in devotional service to the Lord consequently his place of residence becomes equally divine. Although Krishna tells Uddhava that his place Vrndavan is transcendental but that was in order to nourish his nectarine pastimes there  and to teach the masses that Krishna enacted pastimes in the Yamuna river, Radha Kunda , Goverdhan,Yavat while  actually instructing the general people how to vision all these holy places in the mood of service.
Atah Krsnanamadi na bhaved grahyam indrayaih
sevon mukhe hi jihvadau sayam eva shuraty adah
The above verse means that Realization is possible only by service to the transcendental Autocrat .Mostly people visit these holy places in their mood of enjoyment but the mood of the elevated devotees is devoid of such enjoyment. For them it is unalloyed service to Lord Krishna with their senses devoid of such enjoying tendencies.
The eminent Acarya of the Gaudiya Vaishanava Association ,HDG Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada accompanied by his associates came recently last Aswin month to the holy spots as Radha Kunda and in that mood of service  also came to Vrndavana.
bhavaddvidha bhagavatastirtha bhuta svayam vibho
tirtha kurvanti tirthani svantah sthena gadabhrta
meaning; Having the Supreme Lord in your heart, you are a place of pilgrimage and able to purify the holy places.
As according to this verse the great sages can rejuvenate the holy places  by their purity. Once Madhusudhan Goswami  gave a very long fiery discourse in the precincts of the Lala Babu mandir in Vrndavana to an assembly of distinguished devotees. He glorified specifically the glories and nature of the pure devotees to receive their mercy and  further to imbibe the teachings of Mahaprabhu. It was a  effort in establishing the pure Vaishnava doctrine. Srila Prabhupada was then in the Madhava Gaudiya Math in  Dhaka for the Damodar month long vow. He was engaged in clarifying the instructions as exemplified in the devotional scriptures .At that place too was the actual vision of Vrndavana. As Bhaktivinoda  Thakur sings :
ye din grhe bhajan dekhi,grhe goloka bhaya .Automatically all the ingredients of raganuga bhajan manifests when an elevated devotee performs his bhajan at any place

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