To expand the teachings of loving bhakti, Shri Vallabhacharya left his beloved Braja and started his second pilgrimage around India by heading westward into Rajasthan. He first stopped at Pushkara, a pilgrimage site sacred to Lord Brahma, to give teachings on the Bhagavat. From there he entered into Gujarata where he taught at many places throughout the region and made many disciples. Even today, the largest concentration of followers is found in Gujarat. The bhakti master went to Vadanagar Visnagar, Kheralu, Dakor, and Broach. In Durvasa Shri Vallabhacharya met a man who was practicing severe penance and explained to him, “This is not the right way to attain God. You are torturing yourself. To understand God, love is required. Devotion is the key. One can see God by understanding and emulating the devotion of the great bhaktas.”

From there Shri Vallabhacharya went to Bhanu, Kapisha and then on to Tagadi where hundreds of people came to him. There he spoke on the lilas of Lord Krishna and explained that children should be loved as images of God, just as Krishna’s mother Yashoda loved her two sons Shri Krishna and Balaram. A Brahmin couple who attended the teachings later found their sons eating butter from the churning pot and called Shri Vallabhacharya to their house and showed him their children’s divine activities.

Shri Vallabhacharya insisted that his disciple should serve Shri Krishna’s Svarupa, (literally Shri Krishna’s own form) and established one in his follower’s home. He initiated them into the modes of loving service and explain to them,

“After making your lunch offering, a devotional contemplation should be done. Quietly reflect how Shri Krishna takes His meals at home during the winter season. Follow Krishna when He is invited to the Gopi’s house. During the hot season, contemplate Shri Krishna’s lunch in the forest by the banks of the Yamuna or in the forest at Shyamdak or at other places where His cows graze and He plays with His cowlad friends. When Shri Krishna is hungry, see how Heclimbs a tree to look for the Gopis who are bringing His lunch. Sometimes when the Gopis lose their way, Krishna sounds His flute to show them the path. Feel the groups of Gopis coming from their homes with lunch baskets balanced on their heads. Shri Krishna enjoys their offerings and gives the leftovers to His friends. Krishna plays in so many ways.

“Sometimes He grabs the food, laughs and then gives the Gopis secret messages about an evening rendez-vouz. There are so many bhavas to contemplate.

“During the rainy season, Radha and Krishna come to the Vrindavan forest which is delightful to behold. Dark clouds fill the sky and when Shri Svaminiji gets wet from the rain, Shri Krishna dries her with the edge of His blanket. Shri Krishna enchants Radha and takes her to bowers filled with precious jewels. She implores Krishna, ‘You enjoy the offerings first.’ They exchange sweet words while Lalita and other Gopis serve the Divine Couple and enjoy the lila. Know that Shri Krishna responds directly to the bhava of His pure bhakta.”

Shri Vallabhacharya’s son, Shri Gusainji, was to later add, “In the Grace Path, whatever, whenever and in whatever way the bhaktas offer Shri Krishna something He desires, He appears to them directly as the Lord of the Gopis. Then His lotus face laughs as He affectionately accepts the offerings.”

Shri Vallabhacharya then continued on his way and visited Veraval and Junagarh before he went on to Dwarka where many followers of Shri Shankarcharya came to debate with the bhakti master and ended up becoming his disciples. Near Gopi Talaiya, Shri Mahaprabhu Vallabhacharya told his disciples the following story.

“Once in Dwarka, when Shri Krishna mentioned to Shri Rukminiji how He played the flute and called the Gopis out to dance in the forest of Vrindavan, Shri Rukmini remarked, “I would like to experience that Rasa Lila.”

“Shri Krishna laughed and said, ‘How will you make it to the forest at night? You will not be able to renounce your worldly concerns like the Gopis of Vrindava did.’

‘“Just play Your flute and see.”’ She said.

‘Rukmini then returned to the palace and told all the other Dwarka Queens to adorn and ready themselves for Krishna’s night- time forest lila. Later that evening, Shri Krishna went to the Gopi lake and played His flute. Hearing the call, Shri Rukminiji and other Dwarka Queens, along with their women associates and attendants headed out of their palaces all fully adorned. When they approached the main gates and saw their inlaws and senior family members there, they hesitated, ‘“What will we say if they ask us where we are going? We better stay home tonight.”

‘While the Queens retired back to their respectful palaces, Shri Krishna, Who was ready for dance, knew what was happening and called the Gopis of Braja there. Along with the Vrindavan Gopis, out of Shri Krishna’s sixteen thousand Dwarka wives, only five managed to get out of their palaces to experience Shri Krishna’s delightful grace-filled form and His Vrindavan lila.’

Wherever Shri Vallabhacharya went, his presence was so powerful that the aroma from his lotus feet was able to uplift fallen souls who did not even get close enough to see him! The Krishna Deities that resided in the temples where Shri Vallabhacharya visited would often come in living form before the master. Sometimes they appeared to him when he visited Their temple and at othertimes They would visit his camp. It was an amazing time. Shri Vallabhacharya created a devotional renaissance wherever he went.

He taught even as he walked, “This creation is a lila, a play of God wherein every being is searching for its core of Bliss. Since Bliss is concealed, it needs to be discovered and for that disclosure, wisdom enhanced with overwhelming love is required. Only then can Blissful Brahman be found within all divine manifestations. Then the bhakta is able to truly experience life and flourish within a world where perceptible names and forms are held perfectly within a wholistic non-dual experience.”

The Beloved then turned to the Himalayas and went to Hardvara, Kedarnth and Badrinath. In Badrinath he met the famous sage, Veda Vyas, and in his high Himalayan cave they discussed the inner meanings of the Shrimad Bhagavatam. Returning to the plains, in Naimisharanya, Mahaprahuji told his listeners that knowledge devoid of devotion is ineffectual and that devotees should seek the grace of God through selfless love.

The bhakti master then halted at Ayodhya, Prayaga, Benares

Harehar, Gaya and then where the sacred Ganges river meets the ocean. He stayed in Ganga Sagar for six months and worked on the his commentary on the third canto of the Shrimad Bhagavatam. He named his commentary Shri Subodhini. Shri Krishna appeared again to Shri Vallabhacharya and told him that it was time for him to complete his earthly mission and return to Him. Feeling that his work was incomplete, he postponed his worldly departure and went on to Jagannath Puri where he was handed some rice prasada on a fast day. Not wanting to pay disrespect to the offering nor break his fast by eating the grains, he stood for the entire night in the temple, singing the praises of the food that has been offered to Shri Krishna. When the sun rose on the following day, marking the end of his fast, he ate the blessed morsel.

Later the king of Jagannath Puri questioned Shri Vallabhacharya, “Who is the highest Deity? What is the main scripture as well as the most holy mantra? Finally, what is the most exalted work we can do?”

The bhakti master put these questions onto a piece of paper and placed them in the inner temple and closed the doors. He awaited the Lord’s response. When the temple opened, each question was percisely answered by Lord Jagannath in Sanskrit.

In 1511, mahaprabhuji’s first son, Gopinathji, was born in Adel and in 1516 his second son, Shri Vitthalnathji was born in Charanat, near Benares. Gopinathji’s lineage did not continue and Shri Vitthalnathji, also called Shri Gusainji, continued his father’s work and greatly embellished the Path of Grace. In Adel Shri Mahparabhujj found the time and inspiration to compose works that would shed light upon the loving path of devotion as well as upon the inner meanings of the Upanisadas, Gita, Brahma Sutra and of course the Shrimad Bhagavatam. When his devoted scribe Kashmiri Bhatt suddenly died, Shri Vallabhacharya stopped his writing. He had already heard Shri Krishna call to return to Him a second time at Madhuvan when he was in Braja. At the age of fifty- two, he informed his wife that he was taking sanyasa and that he would renounce his home and family. Madhevendrapuri initiated him as a sannyasi and after remaining in his house in solitude for one week, singing the Gopi’s song with tears pouring from his eyes, he left his home and went to Benares where he spent another week all alone on the banks of the holy Ganga. Just before he left his physical body, his family and disciples came before him and the master wrote his final teaching in the Ganges sands for them to reflect upon.

“If you turn away from Shri Krishna, time will devour your body and senses. Have faith in Shri Krishna the Beloved of the Gopis. He will always protect you.”

In the year 1532, Shri Mahaprabhu Vallabhacharya, Shri Krishna’s very face, entered the Ganges river singing the verse,

“Glories, Glories to You Beloved Krishna, You have appeared in Braja where even Laksmi takes Your constant shelter. With bated breath we serach for you in all the quarters. O Beloved, come and look at us.”

Then master’s body ascended into the firmament in a column of divine fire and merged into the Govardhan Hill hundreds of miles away. Shri Mahaprabhuji Vallabhacharya, the Beloved of Shri Krishna, entered into the Krishna’s lila with his physical body. He left us a rapturuous path of devotion to contemplate and follow. “Always make Shri Krishna’s seva.”

His son Shri Vitthalnathji later wrote.