IT WOULD BE BETTER TO BE BLIND
I request you to come with me to Vrindavana. The Gopis are assembled in their houses. By their bhava-netra, eyes of transcendental ecstatic emotions, they are seeing that Krishna is going through the forest and playing on the flute – very beautiful Krishna. They are hearing the very sweet voice of the flute, and they are all totally immersed in that. They are discussing with each other, and one sakhi is telling another, “Sakhi! O, what are you doing? Come with me at once. Come on. Don’t delay; otherwise Krishna will go away. I know that the fruit of these eyes is only one. Only one. And what is that? To have a darshana of Krishna. Only this. If you do not have the darshana of Krishna, your eyes are useless. Useless. It would be better to be blind. There is only one fruit of these eyes – to have the darshana of Krishna.
Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja: Murwillumbah, Australia, January 21, 2001