Understand Vrindavana through the Six Goswamis' yearning devotion, not material imitation or sense gratification.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.31 [Partially recorded] — August 12, 1974, Vṛndāvana 740812SB-VRNDAVAN [06:30 Minutes] SB-01.05.31_740812SB-VRNDAVAN Prabhupāda: ...affair of this Vṛndāvana-dhāma. They simply, they're searching after. They never said. He rādhe vraja-devike ca lalite he nanda-sūno kutaḥ [Ṣaḍ-gosvāmy-aṣṭaka 8]: "Oh, where is Rādhārāṇī?
Where You are? Where are Your friends, Lalitā and Viśākhā? Where is Nanda, son of Mahārāja Nanda, Kṛṣṇa?" Śrī-govardhana-kalpa-pādapa-tale kālindī-vane kutaḥ: "Where are You? Are You near the Govardhana Hill or in the forest on the bank of the Yamunā?" Ghoṣantāv iti khedair mahā-vihvalau.
They are crying, "Where is Kṛṣṇa? Where is Kṛṣṇa? Where is Rādhārāṇī? Where is...?" They're crying: ghoṣantāv iti sarvato vraja-pure khedair mahā-vihvalau.
Mad. Mad after. Vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau. This is the process of kṛṣṇa-bhajana.
Not that "I've seen just last night Kṛṣṇa dancing with the gopīs." It is not so easy. Ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved... [Brs. 1.2.234]. So long we are materialistic, it is impossible to see what is Kṛṣṇa. Therefore we have to follow the path chalked out by Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His immediate disciples, the six Gosvāmīs.
Caitanya Mahāprabhu was mad. In Jagannātha Purī at night He became mad, "Where is Kṛṣṇa? Where is Kṛṣṇa?" He'd go on the seaside and drown Himself in the sea. And Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī could not see where is Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Sometimes He was caught by the fisherman, and He became exhaus..., all night chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, simply by touching Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is very scientific, based on the philosophy given by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and expanded by the Sanātana Gosvāmī, Rūpa Gosvāmī and other assistants. kṛṣṇotkīrtana-gāna-nartana-parau premāmṛtāmbho-nidhī dhīrādhīra-jana-priyau priya-karau nirmatsarau pūjitau śrī-caitanya-kṛpā-bharau... [Śrīnivāsa Ācārya] These six Gosvāmīs directly got the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Therefore we have to understand this Vṛndāvana-dhāma through the Gosvāmīs.