Assignment

Explain in your own words, how the statement "a pure devotee can live anywhere and create
the atmosphere of Vrindavan by his devotional service" reflects Prabhupada mood. Give
reference to Bhagavad gita 8.14 verse and purport in your response  (Mode and Mission)
 Explain in your own words a pure devotee can live anywhere and create the
atmosphere of Vrindavan by his devotional service
 Reflect Prabhupada mood
 Give reference to Bhagavad Gita 8.14 and purport in your response 
Title
Vrindavan Within You
By
Amara Nimai Das
Introduction 
 This essay describes various processes and methods of how “a pure devotee can live
anywhere and create the atmosphere of Vrindavan by his devotional service and also reflect
on Srila prabhupada mood and mission.
Searching Vrindavan
When a devotee performs pure devotional service, Lord Sri Krishna becomes please by his
pure devotion and resides in the heart of a pure devotes. When Lord Krishna resides in the
heart of pure devotes it becomes the place of Vrindavana, which is achieved by constant
cleansing of the heart. There are some claims that if one wants to live one should live in a
Vrindavana or holy place. Living in Vrindavan does not means just physically present there.
If one commits the most abominable action in the holy place like Vrindavan it is not
considered to be like living in Vrindavan, it is told in the scriptures that whatever Spiritual
activity were performed in the holy place like Vrindavana it will fructify more than hundred
and thousand times. So the best way to live in Vrindavana is to engage ourselves in the
transcendental service of the Supreme Lord Krishna, which will bound Lord krishan within
one's heart. Lord Sri Krishna is swarat that is, he is fully independent but the lord becomes
attracted to his pure devotes and especially for his unalloyed pure devotional service, in this
way lord resides in the heart of pure devotes. 
Lords Pure Devotee creates the atmosphere of Vrindavan Anywhere and Everywhere 
The very best example in this regard is H.D.G Srila A.C Bhakti Vedanta Swami Prabhupada
who created the atmosphere of Vrindavan all over the world. Srila Prabhupada stayed in
Radha Damodara temple before he establishes this ISKCON movement worldwide. To full
fill the desire of his spiritual master Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswathi Goswami Prabhupada,
Srila Prabhupada left the Radha Damodara Temple and went to America to preach the
mission of Lord Caitanya movement to English speaking world. Although Srila Prabhupada
left Vrindavana physically his purpose is to spread this Krishna Consciousness Movement by
constantly absorbing in Krishna Consciousness 24 hours a day. In this way he carried the lord
within his heart and make all the places Vrindavana, he also established 108 temples all over
the world before he go to his eternal abord in which some of them are Sri Sri Radha
Rasabihari (Bombay), Sri Sri Radha Govinda Mandir (Calcutta), Sri Sri Radhakrishna
Temple (Colombo). Pure devotee of the lord expects nothing in return from the lord they
only want pure unalloyed devotional service to the supreme lord as stated below

A pure devote of krishna does not want anything for himself. He has no Self-Interest; He does
everything to please the Lord and he is always absorbed in “thinking about Krishna without
deviation and without considering the time or place (B.G 8.14 Purport)
Practice pure devotional service to live eternally in the spiritual world. 
The purpose of the human form of life is to go back to our real home back to godhead. This
material world is a place of misery as stated by Lord Krishan in Srimad Bhagavad Gita 8.15
which is duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam, because everyone should suffer and die in this temporary
material world, but there is no birth, death, old age and disease in the spiritual world, it is an
ever-blissful world, everyone lives a happy and permanent life in his eternal abord without
undergoing material misery, which is known as Goloka Vrindavana. 

To go to our eternal abord one should develop the qualification to attain. So, Srila
Prabhupada very much empathizes on the Importance of devotional service, which is the only
means to attain our eternal abord. By doing pure devotional service not only one can attain
our desired destination but a pure devotee can live anywhere and create the atmosphere of
Vrindavana by helping others to take them back to their real home back to godhead through
his strong peaching of the Krishna Consciousness Movement.
Pure Devotional Service in Glance
Srila Prabhupada established temples all over the world and installed the deity of Radha
Krishna and made sure that they are worshiped as per Pancaratrika Vidhi, he also gave us the
daily temple program Schedule of 
    1. Mangala Aarthi 
    2. Narasimha Aarthi
    3. Thulasi Aarthi 
    4.16 Rounds chanting of Hare Krishna Maha Mantra  
    5. Guru Puja 
    6. Srimad Bhagavatam Class 
    7. Gaura Aarthi in the evening and also conducted different ISKCON-related festivals.
 If these above programs are conducted daily in the temples, such temples are non-different
from Vrindavan. These are the above process of pure devotional service which is set by Srila
Prabhupada to us. Srila Prabhupada also told all the Grihastha devotees should follow the
same program in their house which is followed in the temple. If it is followed then our home
is like a temple which is nondifferent from Vrindavana. Srila Prabhupada thought by his
examples, that is how to set an atmosphere of Vrindavan in any part of the world. Devotional
service is very simple it is not about changing one's external, but it is about purifying one’s
internal consciousness. Everyone can't leave their home and come to Vrindavana, but the
above process which is set by Srila Prabhupada can be followed very easily to create a
Vrindavana atmosphere in any part of the world.
Conclusion 
By following the above standards set by Srila Prabhupada and by being absorbed
in Krishna consciousness, we can carry Vrindavana within one's heart and make all the
places Vrindavana including our home and one can constantly feel like living in Vrindavana.
This is known as living in Vrindavana.  
Word Count
1.Introduction - 35
2.Search of Vrindavan -199
3.Lords Pure Devotee 
create the atmosphere
of Vrindavan Anywhere 
and Every Where -195
4. Practice pure devotional 
service to live eternally in 
the spiritual world. -187
5. Pure Devotional Service 
in Glance -224
6. Conclusion - 49
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Total 889
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