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Today is the final day of our Kartik Parikrama. We wish we could stay even longer in Vrindavana. We wish Kartik would go on and on and on. Yet all things must come to an end. In the higher spiritual sense, however, we carry Vrindavana with us wherever we go. There is Goloka Vrindavana in the spiritual world, there is Bhauma Vrindavana that we visit in the earthly realm, but ultimately, Vrindavana is within each one of us. Any place where Krishna is at the centre is Vrindavana.
Speaker: @KeshavaSwami
From: "The Playground of God", available as a free pdf on [ Ссылка ]
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Our great teacher Rupa Gosvami says, tan-nama-rupa-caritadi-sukirtananu. If you are always engaged in chanting Krishna’s names, serving Krishna in whatever way you can, discussing the wonderful divine play of Krishna, and in this way, if your life revolves around Krishna, tishthan vraje tad-anuragi-jananugami – then you can live in Vrindavana all the time, and thus you will be following in the footsteps of the residents of Vraja.
Although Srila Prabhupada physically left Vrindavana, he explained, "I never took a step out of Vrindavana. I was always living in Vrindavana because I was always dedicated to trying to serve Krishna and His representatives."
Today, let us remember that Srila Prabhupada was staying at the Radha-Damodara temple, where he used to observe an old, widowed Bengali lady. Every day, that old widow would go to the banks of the Yamuna, collect water with a broken bucket, and bring that water back for the service of the Deity. Sometimes, Srila Prabhupada would even open the gate so that she could come in. One day, Prabhupada turned to one of his disciples and said, "This life is her last life. She will not come back here again. She is ready to re-enter Krishna’s abode." Prabhupada explained that she was already living in Vrindavana consciousness, and if someone leaves the world in Vrindavana consciousness, then ultimately they enter Vrindavana.
