Niṣṭhā-bhajana · Fixed Loving Service

Vṛndāvana is beyond the descriptive power of words. It is the best of all holy places. It is self-manifest, filled with most intense transcendental bliss, free from the touch of the material miseries of old-age and death, and the place where Lord Kṛṣṇa eternally enjoys nectar pastimes.

Radha and Kṛṣṇa's love is more glorious than gold purified in ten thousand flames. Radha and Kṛṣṇa make great waves in the ocean of nectar. The love in Their eyes is like a cakora bird. Kama and Rati meditate on Them. Their love and happiness are the closest of friends.

Charming Srimati Radharāṇī, the best of the gopīs, stays on Lord Kṛṣṇa's left side, Her complexion the color of the filament of a golden flower, clothed in the garment of ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa and a blue silk sārī, and Her limbs are beautiful with many ornaments.

Become Their gopi-companion. Make Them more dear than life. With your eyes drink the nectar of Their beauty and pastimes. Dive in an ocean of bliss. Always serve the youthful Divine Couple, who are seated on a jewel throne and beyond the rules of the Vedas.

Why don't you worship Lord Hari now that you have this rare human birth? If you don't worship Him, what do you think will be your fate after death? Give up all other duties. Don't worship the demigods. Serve Lord Kṛṣṇa's feet.

Do not worship Lord Nandanandana, the blissful master of Vraja, and the entire world around you will become filled with pain. Become attracted to higher material realms, the attainment of liberation, or the hellish pleasures of this sphere, and your valuable human birth will become spoiled.

Do not put your trust in the material body. After death Yamaraja will punish you and your karma will push you into an ocean of pain. Now that you have heard and understood this, please follow the path of the saints and scriptures. Worship and love the feet of the youthful Divine Couple.

The fruitive work of karma-kāṇḍa and the speculations of jnāna-kaṇḍa are two pots of poison. If one drinks these two poisons, and then proclaims that they are both as sweet as nectar, he will fall from the human realm and spend a long time wandering in many species of life, eating many abominable things, and enjoying many horrible pleasures.

They who proclaim someone else as their Lord and don't love Radha-Kṛṣṇa don't understand anything of loving devotional service. Not asking about devotional service, and all their thoughts placed in the illusory material world, they have wasted their lives.

Most people know only of work and philosophy. They don't know anything about devotional service. Each with a different opinion, they are all fools. Don't listen to their talk. Learn about devotional service, the life of the devotees.

Lord Hari is present in every corner of the material world. Brahmā and Siva are His order-carriers. Talk of His pastimes is very very sweet. One who know this is a great soul. I yearn for his association.

Thirst to attain Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Worship Him. Love Him as the residents of Vraja did. Reside in Vrajapura, where Lord Kṛṣṇa eternally enjoys pastimes. Stay in the company of great souls that relish the nectar of Kṛṣṇa.

Great souls stay always in Vraja, day and night their hearts full of love for Kṛṣṇa. That is the truth. It is not otherwise. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī has proved it.

I will meditate on the lotus feet of the devotees, hear from them, remember Lord Kṛṣṇa's gopī-friends, and always be happy in Vrajapura.

I will meditate on the youthful Divine Couple and sing of Their nectar pastimes. I pray for that. In this life or after death I have no other desire. Thus speaks poor-hearted Narottama dasa.