In this way the devotee, in a remote place, like a swan, he will begin tasting and speaking reverently the nectarean topics about the Lord, the juice from the fruit of the desire tree, the Great Upanisad, Srimad Bhagavatam, containing the mystic science of bhakti. He will converse constantly with devotees, to the exclusion of all topics other than Krsna--like a curious spectator, first standing, then sitting , finally entering in with full attention. He will take refuge in the Lord's dhama and will fix himself purely in the Lord's service.Ignorant people will think he is going crazy. The blissful devotional service performed by the expert devotees is like a dance. The devotee begins to learn the lessons of that dance; being taken by the hands of the dance instructress, ruci, he learns all--experiencing an extraordinary, unprecedented, golden bliss which cannot be described. In what blissful realm will he come to exist, when in time, he is made to dance by the supreme masters of dance, bhava and prema?
- Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakur
