Desiring to See Krishna's Pastimes in Vrindavana

2 October 2012--This morning Lord Sri Krishna gave me a lot of special mercy. On the request of the temple management I lead the singing at Srila Prabhupada's mangala arati in Prabhupada's samadhi. This was from 4:10am until 4:25am. Then feeling very purified and uplifted I headed back to my quarters in the Vrindavana Bhaktivedanta Ashram to wake up Sri Sri Radha Damodar, offer them some milk sweets, and then offer them mangala arati. Along the way while walking under some of the trees of Vrindavana I gazed up at the brilliant moon illuminating the night sky. This immediately reminded me of Lord Sri Krishna's most sublime Vrindavana pastimes. And then feeling surcharged from this remembrance and hankering to see the Lord and His lila with my own eyes I recited this prayer composed by Srinivasa Acharya describing the moods of the Six Goswamis of Vrindavana:

he rādhe vraja-devike ca lalite he nanda-sūno kutaḥ
śrī-govardhana-kalpa-pādapa-tale kālindī-vane kutaḥ

"Queen of Vrindavana, Radharani! O Lalita! O son of Nanda Maharaja! Where are you all now? Are you just on the hill of Govardhan, or are you under the trees on the bank of the Yamuna? Where are you?" .

Srinivasa Acharya writes that the six Goswamis were chanting in this mood very loudly everywhere in Vrindavana. Krishna so kindly blessed me with a tiny sample taste of this desire to behold His beautiful form and His pastimes. I know from the writings of Narottama Das Thakur that now I must become free from all of my material desires so that someday I will become actually qualified to behold the Lord, His dhama, and His pastimes in their full splendor.

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