Just wander

Madhavananda das: When we arrived in Vrindavan, I remember walking into Srila Prabhupada's room and paying my obeisances and saying, "Srila Prabhupada, what should we do now?" And he looked down at me and he said, "Just wander." So that's exactly what I did. I just went out into the Vrindavan village and everything I'd read about in Nectar of Devotion and Krishna Book, I was thinking of those things. I wanted to take rest under a kalpa-vrksa tree, it's something I'd wanted to do for a long time. So I actually found one tree in the forest, and I actually fell asleep and slept very soundly and very deeply for a couple of hours. When I woke up it was evening time, and I didn't really know where everybody was but I heard in the background the kirtan going on, Hare Krishna. So I followed the sound and I arrived at this big program where Srila Prabhupada and all the devotees were, and the lecture had just stopped and they were serving out prasadam. That was a great day in my life, just the way it worked out.