The way one resides in Vṛndāvan or in Rādhā-kuṇḍa isn't necessarily just to move in, and I'll stop with this point, but it means that, we should be careful. Caitanya Mahāprabhu said that you should live in Vṛndāvan always; if you can't be there physically, then you should live there within your mind and heart. So if you're living here, you can cultivate that mood.
It does help to go to Vṛndāvan during our lifetimes if we could make the pilgrimage to Vṛndāvan, as suggested by Prahlāda Mahārāja in today's verse 'vanaṁ gato yad dharim āśrayeta'. You should try to go there and take shelter. My personal experience is going to the dhāma and spending time there means that you develop a relationship with it because the dhāma is non-different from Kṛṣṇa. If you go there and serve the dhāma and you hear in the dhāma, then you start to develop an affection for the dhāma and you think, "Let me be in the dhāma."And then, you can think of the dhāma, and that was Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's recommendation or order that 'Live in Vṛndāvan', but it means live there within your heart. Some people move to Vṛndāvan, and they're thinking, "I wish I was in Delhi because I could watch a video right now. I won't do it in Vṛndāvan, but maybe I'll go to Delhi and watch a video and come back."
And somebody might be in Delhi, or the middle of France for that matter, and be pining for Vṛndāvan and think, "I wish I was in Vṛndāvan and I'm not qualified," and therefore they're feeling separation for the dhāma. They're more in Vṛndāvan than someone who maybe has moved into Vṛndāvan and then, became entangled in, mundane thoughts and so forth.
Therefore, as we'll discuss later from some of Prabhupāda's purports and instructions, when we approach the dhāma, we should be very careful. Prabhupāda once said you can stay there three days or three years. Three days means you go there very carefully and offer obeisances to Kṛṣṇa Balarāma and be in some of the Kirtans and so forth. Three days, so you don't make any offense and then go or three years if you
have service. When we go to the dhāma, main point is you should have some service there if you're going to stay a long period of time. Because often times people go to the dhāma and think I'll hear and chant 24 hours a day, and then they get there and khrh..And you find out, yeah, you still got to find out where to eat, right, because you are hungry, right? And then it's like you're in the food line: "Do you have a plate? I don't have a plate. You need a spoon." All the other types of things well up in one's life, and it becomes a situation where one might become a desperado in the dhāma, and that's also not ideal. So we have to cultivate the relationship with the dhāma very carefully, and one can do so from here in France, being in this dhāma but cultivating knowledge of the dhāma through hearing and chanting, but also visiting.
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