VMA 1.6 : What is it to me if you cannot see Vrindavan's glories?
vedāntāḥ pratipādayanti mukhato no cet tataḥ kiṁ mama manyante bata śāstra-garta-patitā dustarkiṇaḥ kiṁ tataḥ | no ced bhāgavatānubhūti-padavīṁ yātās tataḥ kiṁ mama svātmā vajra-sahasra-viddha iva na spandeta vṛndāvanāt || If the Upanishads do not openly establish Vrindavan’s glories, then what difference does that make to me? And if the bad faith debaters, fallen into the pit of the scriptures do not accept them, what is that to me? And even if those who have directly realized Bhagavan Narayan do not accept those glories, what is that to me? Their words may strike my soul as a thousand thunderbolts, but I will not move an inch from Vrindavan. (1.6) Commentary O Bhaktas! Just wrap Prabodhananda’s language around you like a protective garment. Slip into it like a comfortable cloak. Listen to him come back to those familiar turns of phrase and poetic tropes, that niṣṭ...