1. Being in Vrndavana yet far away

    We are in Vrndavana-dhama. So why Vrndavana-dhama is worshiped? Because the Vrndavana-dhama is not different from Krsna. When you take little dust of Vrndavana-dhama and take it, that means you are taking the dust of Krsna's lotus feet, and you take it. Vrndavana-dhama, so important.

    So Vrndavana-dhama, ordinary man cannot see. Therefore Narottama dasa Thakura says,
    rupa-raghunatha-pade haibe akuti
    kabe hama bujhabo sri yugala-piriti
    visaya chadiya kabe suddha ha'be mana
    kabe hama herabo sri-vrndavana

    Vrndavana, if you come from anywhere by the train and aeroplane and see Vrndavana, that is not seeing Vrndavana. Vrndavana-seeing means,
    visaya chadiya kabe suddha ha'be mana
    kabe hama herabo sri-vrndavana

    When we shall be free from visaya… Visaya means ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithunam [Hitopadesa 25]. So who can give up visaya
    unless it is a great devotee? Others cannot. Visaya, it is very difficult. But if one is advanced devotee — param drstva nivartate [Bg. 2.59] — they can give up. So if you come to Vrndavana and arrange for a visaya-bhoga — ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithunam — then Vrndavana is far away.

    (From Srila Prabhupada's talk on Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.2.14 — September 17, 1975, Vrndavana)