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Vrindavana, October 31, 1976: [...] This place, before Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s advent, this city, or this whole Vrindavana area, Radha-kunda it was all field only, agricultural field. Nobody knew where Krishna had His pastimes. So it was the direction of Caitanya Mahaprabhu that this is Radha-kunda, this is this, this is this, and the Gosvamis they did it. That was it. Not that they came here… Although they were sitting underneath a tree. Raghunatha Gosvami had no opportunity to come to a nice temple like this. They came when the whole thing was only agricultural field. But they constructed gradually the Madana-mohana’s temple, the Govindaji’s temple, the Radha-kunda. They engaged fully, writing books, and establishing temples. Then after them others, big, big…Just like first of all, Maharaja Mansingh, he carried out the order of Rupa Gosvami. He spent so much, in those days, lakhs and crores of rupees. You have seen the Govindaji’s temple, broken. It is not possible to construct such a temple at the present moment. But is was done by the order of Sri Rupa Gosvami. It is the system, if you want to see a saintly person, you must go there to serve him. Not that simply asking, “Give me your blessing.” And, “Why, are you worthy for blessing?” Cheap blessing. And blessing also, they do not know what is blessing. Blessing, they think that “I have got some disease, if the saintly person gives me some blessing, I will be relieved from this disease.” Now why don’t you go to the doctor? But you go to saintly person for curing your disease. This is anyabhilasita, that they do not know even how to approach a saintly person. So Mansingh was very important man, he was the commander-in-chief of Akbar, and he approached Rupa Gosvami, “What can I do for you.” So, Rupa Gosvami, he did not require that temple, but he wanted to engage this rich man to the service of the Lord and he asked him that, “You construct a temple like this.” Rupa Gosvami was living very humbly, you know at the Radha-Damodara temple, his bhajanasrama. He did not require a temple. But we are making members. Why? The idea is they’ll spend the money for nothing in sense gratification. Take some money from them and engage in constructing temple. This is our Krishna consciousness movement.