Religious Ecology of Vrindavan: Journal of Vaishnava Studies

Abstract

Every visitor to Vrindavan brings home vibrant images, some full of natural and spiritual beauty, others revealing deep devotional fervor
and enduring sentiment, still others highlighting the dissonance between Vrindavan’s spiritual significance and her physical reality. The purpose of this paper is to examine some focal images and to probe their significance for contemporary Vaishnava devotion and for Vrindavan’s future.