1. Living in Vrndavana

    “I shall make my family affairs very perfectly situated, then I shall take sannyasa.” “I shall give all my money to the family and I shall take some little money with me and I shall go to Vrndavana. I shall live there.” The adjustment is family, not adjustment how to go to Vrndavana.

    You will find, in Vrndavana, many retired persons are living. The major portion, ninety-nine percent of their money has gone to their families and one percent money he has deposited in savings to get him some say twenty or fifty rupees per month and like this. They call, “This is perfect Vrndavana living.” And they criticize us, one gentlemen who is a Babaji, he was speaking to me, “Swamiji, why you are so much interested for pracara — for preaching. You are living in Vrndavana, why you have left? Please don’t go any more.” Last time, he was saying. “Yes. That’s alright, but my. What can I do? My Guru Maharaja has ordered. So you better enjoy Vrndavana let me go to hell.” So they think like that. That simply by sitting at Vrndavana and doing all nonsense. Of course not everyone is doing, but this is the mentality.

    Srila Prabhupada, Lecture – May 1, 1971