As soon as you offer yourself to be enjoyed by Kṛṣṇa as servant, according to His order you serve, then immediately you are in the spiritual world. So you can become in the material world or spiritual world, as you desire. As you desire. If you want to remain in the spiritual world, this temple is the spiritual world. We are not living in Melbourne. This temple is not Melbourne. It is Vaikuṇṭha. It is Vṛndāvana. So if you stick to this temple service, Kṛṣṇa’s service, then you are not in this material world. This is your position.

– Bhagavad-gītā 13.22-24 – Melbourne, June 25, 1974