1. Vrndavan, the example of spontaneous ecstatic love

    If we take to Krsna consciousness, shelter of the lotus feet of Krsna — sa vai manah krsna-padaravindayoh [SB 9.4.18] — if we fix up our mind always at the lotus feet of Krsna, then everything will follow very perfectly. That is promised by Krsna. Tesam satata-yuktanam bhajatam priti-purvakam [Bg. 10.10]. If one is engaged always in love and affection… Not as official love. Ecstatic love, spontaneous, that is wanted. That example is here in Vrndavana. At least, as we get information of Vrndavana from the sastras, from Srimad-Bhagavatam, how spontaneously the inhabitants of Vrndavana — the gopis and the cowherds boys and the birds, beasts, the calves, the animals, the trees — everyone, even the flies, the bees, the insect, even the dust, the grass — everyone is…, they are all cinmaya, spiritual. They are not material. But they are attracted to Krsna in different varieties.

    Srila Prabhupada, speaking in Vrndavana; September 9, 1976