Vrindaban as Locus of Mystical Experience: Journal of Vaishnava Studies

Abstract

In this essay I shall be speaking about a place - a town in nothern India called Vrindaban - that is held scared by vast numbers of Hindus. Though Vrindaban is a place that inhabits geographical space, what I wish to focus on here is the experience of Vrindaban. By that I mean the ways in which Vrindaban impacts itself upon the consciousness of devout pilgrims - or put differently, how Vrindaban perhaps may be fruitfully conceieved more as a state of mind or of being than as any "place" at all.