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Santosa, Mayapur, April 9, 1975: “In a temple of jewels in Vrindavana, underneath a desire tree, Sri Sri Radha-Govinda, served by Their most confidential associates, sit upon an effulgent throne. I offer my humble obeisances unto Them.”
Prabhupada:
divyad-vrndaranya-kalpa-drumadhah-srimad-ratnagara-simhasana-sthau srimad-radha-srila-govinda-devau prestalibhih sevyamanau smarami
So, description of Vrindavana, Vrindavana and Radha and Krishna situated there. The Vrindavana… Vana means forest, and vrnda means tulasi. Mostly there are tulasi plants and other trees also, but all the trees are living desire trees, spiritual.
They can serve Krishna in any way, desire. They have become trees by their voluntary desire. They’re all spiritual beings—there is no force—but everyone has got a particular tendency to serve Krishna in a different way. So these trees and plants, they are also living beings. They are not ordinary living beings, but they have decided to serve Krishna by supplying fruits and flowers.
They want that service. Everyone has got his particular propensity. So someone is serving as the land there, someone is serving as the throne, someone is serving as the supplying agent of fruits and flowers, someone is engaged in His service as the gopis, confidential servitors.
The cows, calves, everything—they are all different living entities. They are not made of these material things, material body. Ananda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhavitabhis tabhir ya eva nija-rupataya kalabhih. They are all also expansion of Krishna’s pleasure potency.
In one sense they are also Krishna; they are not different from Krishna. Sakti-saktimatayor abheda: “The power and the powerful, they are not different, identical.” Just like the sun and the sunshine. So in the sun globe there is heat and light, and the sunshine, there is heat and light.
So, so far heat and light is concerned, they are one. Similarly, Krishna and Krishna’s pleasure potency, ananda-cinmaya, ahladini… It is already described, radha krsna-pranaya-vikrtir hladini-saktir asmat.
So whatever description is there of Vrindavana, that is expansion of Krishna’s pleasure potency. They are not different. Therefore in the beginning it is said, divyad, “shining,” or “divine,” “transcendental.”
So we should not consider Vrindavana as ordinary forest. Here we have got Vrindavana on this planet. That is also not ordinary forest. The exactly the same Vrindavana as it is Goloka Vrndavana… There is no difference. Full Lecture
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