Uddhava Visits Vrndavana 295

this material body and appear in his original spiritual body, just as the sun
rises with all illumination. Passing from his life in this way, he immediately
enters into the spiritual kingdom, Vaikuntha. This is the result of Krsna
conscious practice.

If we practice Krsna consciousness in this present body while we are in
a healthy condition and in good mind, simply by chanting the holy maha-
mantra, Hare Krsna, we will have every possibility of fixing our mind upon
Krsna at the time of death. If that is done, then our life becomes successful
without any doubt. Similarly, if we keep our mind always absorbed in
fruitive activities for material enjoyment, then naturally at the time of
death we shall think of such activities and again be forced to enter into a
material, conditioned body to suffer the threefold miseries of material
existence. Therefore, to remain always absorbed in Krsna consciousness
was the standard of the inhabitants of Vrndavana, as exhibited by Maharaja
Nanda, Yagoda and the gopis. If we can simply follow their footsteps, even
to a minute proportion, our lives will surely become successful, and we will
enter into the spiritual kingdom, Vaikuntha.

“My dear mother YaSoda and Nanda Maharaja,” Uddhava continued,
“you have thus fixed your minds wholly and solely upon that Supreme
Personality of Godhead, Narayana, in His transcendental form, the cause
of impersonal Brahman. The Brahman effulgence is only the bodily ray of
Narayana, and because you are always absorbed in ecstatic thought of
Krsna and Balarama, what activity remains to be performed by you? I
have brought a message from Krsna to the effect that He will soon come
back to Vrndavana and satisfy you both by His personal presence. Krsna
promised that He would come back to Vrndavana after finishing His
business in Mathura. This promise He will surely fulfill. I therefore request
you both, who are the best among all fortunates, to be not aggrieved on
account of Krsna’s absence.

“You are already perceiving His presence twenty-four hours a day, and
yet He will come and see you very soon. Actually He is present everywhere
and in everyone’s heart, just as fire is present in wood. Since Krsna is the
Supersoul, no one is His enemy, no one is His friend, no one is equal to
Him, and no one is lower or higher than Him. Actually He has no father,
mother, brother or relative, nor does He require society, friendship and
love. He does not have a material body; He never appears or takes birth
as an ordinary human being. He does not appear in higher or lower
species of life like ordinary living entities, who are forced to take birth
on account of their previous activities. He appears by His internal potency
just to give protection to His devotee. He is never influenced by the modes
