When Mahaprabhu returned to Navadwip after five years of His sannyas, all the men, women, and children madly came to see Him, to have a glimpse of His face. Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur, the nineteenth-century founder of the Krishna consciousness movement, in his internal conception of the Pastimes of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, draws a parallel with the Pastimes of Krishna in Kuruksetra. There Dvaraka Krishna and the gopis of Vrndavan were meeting, and the gopis and gopas wanted to take Krishna from Dvaraka back to Vrndavan. Bhakti Vinod Thakur expresses a similar aspiration. When Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu returned to Navadwip and the crowds rushed to see Him, He stood on the roof of Vachaspati Pandit’s house in the red dress of a sannyasi. Taking himself as a permanent resident of Navadwip, and as one of the members of Srivas Angam, Bhakti Vinod Thakur envisions himself seeing Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu on the rooftop. When Krishna had gone to Dvaraka and wouldn’t return to Vrndavan, the hearts of all the devotees were burdened with grief. In a similar way, Bhakti Vinod Thakur fervently prays: «When will the day come when Nimai Pandit will give up the robes of renunciation and again come and join us in kirtan in the house of Srivas? Now He can’t come — as a sannyasi He can’t return to His old house. So now, we are deserted by Him, but our aspiration this: just as the gopis wanted Krishna’s royal dress removed, and His cowherd dress resumed, so they could take Him again to Vrndavan and play with Him and rejoice, we aspire that Mahaprabhu’s sannyas dress be removed, and His former dress resumed. In this way, we will get back our Nimai Pandit, who is one of us, in Srivas Angam. And together we shall rejoice, taking the Name of Krishna. Oh, when will that day be mine?»