Text 281] The Lord's Attempt to Go to Vrndavana 299

person. At the Ratha-yatra festival, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, absorbed in the
ecstasy of Srimati Radharani, dragged Lord Krsna back to Vrndavana-dhama. Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu spoke of this in the verses beginning dhus ca te
(Madhya 13.136).

In Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.84.13) it is stated:

yasyatma-buddhih kunape tridhatuke
svadhih kalatradisu bhauma ijya-dhih

yat-tirtha-buddhih salile na karhicij
janesv abhijfiesu sa eva gokharah

“A human being who identifies this body made of three elements with his self,
who considers the by-products of the body to be his kinsmen, who considers the
land of birth as worshipable, and who goes to the place of pilgrimage simply to
take a bath rather than meet men of transcendental knowledge there, is to be
considered like an ass or a cow.”

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu personally renovated Vrndavana-dhama and advised
His chief disciples, Ripa and Sanatana, to develop it and open it to attract the
spiritual vision of the general populace. At present there are about five thousand
temples in Vrndavana, and still our society, the International Society for Krishna
Consciousness, is constructing a huge, magnificent temple for the worship of Lord
Balarama, Radha-Krsna and Guru-Gauranga. Since there is no prominent Krsna-
Balarama temple in Vrndavana, we are attempting to construct one so that people
will be attracted to Krsna-Balarama, or Nitai-Gauracandra. Vrajendra-nandana yei,
saci suta haila sei. Narottama dasa Thakura says that Balarama and the son of
Maharaja Nanda have advented Themselves as Gaura-Nitai. To propagate this
fundamental principle, we are establishing a Krsna-Balarama temple to broadcast
to the world that worship of Gaura-Nitai is the same as worship of Krsna-
Balarama. .

Although it is very difficult to enter into the Radhd-Krsna pastimes, most of the
devotees of Vrndavana are attracted to the Radha-Krsna /ilaé. However, since
Nitai-Gauracandra are direct incarnations of Balarama and Krsna, we can be
directly in touch with Lord Balarama and Lord Krsna through Sri Caitanya
Mahdaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu. Those who are highly elevated in Krsna
consciousness can enter into the pastimes of Radha-Krsna through the mercy of
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. It is said: sri-krspa-caitanya radha-krsna nahe anya. Sri
Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu is a combination of Radha and Krsna.

Sometimes materialists, forgetting the pastimes of Radha-Krsna and Krsna-
Balarama, go to Vrndavana, accept the land's spiritual facilities and engage in ma-
terial activity. This is against the teachings of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. The
prakrta-sahajiyas proclaim themselves vraja-vasi or dhama-vdasi, but they are
mainly engaged in sense gratification. Thus they become more and more impli-
