All activities become perfect sacrifice when performed as an offering to Krishna with pure devotion.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.1.4 — August 27, 1973, London 730827SB-LONDON [30:17 Minutes] SB-01.01.04_730827SB-LONDON Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [leads chanting of verse] naimiṣe 'nimiṣa-kṣetre ṛṣayaḥ śaunakādayaḥ satraṁ svargāya lokāya sahasra-samam āsata [SB 1.1.4] [male devotees chant]
Prabhupāda: Any ladies? [lady devotees chant] All right. Then, word meaning? Pradyumna: "Naimiṣe—in the forest known as Naimiṣāraṇya..." Prabhupāda: When you go to India you can see this Naimiṣāraṇya still.
It is very nice place. Just like Vṛndāvana, Prayāga, Haridwar—there are hundreds of nice place for spiritual advancement. So this Naimiṣāraṇya is still there. The railway station is now called Nimsar.
It is about hundred miles from Lucknow, and people go there. Very excellent position for spiritual advancement. There are many temples like Vṛndāvana and Prayāga and Naimiṣāraṇya. Naimiṣe.
Animiṣa-kṣetre. Go on. Pradyumna: "Animiṣa-kṣetre—the spot which is especially a favorite of Viṣṇu, who does not close His eyelids." Prabhupāda: So our eyes, we have got closing, eyelid closes. But Viṣṇu's eyelids never closes.
Therefore He is called animiṣa. Therefore gopīs condemned Brahmā, that "Why you have awarded us these nonsense eyelids? [laughter] It sometimes closes the eye; we cannot see Kṛṣṇa." This is gopīs' desire. They want to see Kṛṣṇa always, without being disturbed by the eyelids.
This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. The moment the eyes are being closed by the eyelids is intolerable by them. This is perfection of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. They are condemning, "Oh, Brahmā did not know how to create. He has...