Gaushala

The Gaushala is situated about 2-3 kilometers from Shreenathji’s Haveli.
This is His most favorite place.
Many times I feel Shreeji likes to be away from His mandir, especially when gurushree is in Nathdwara; and He spends time with us at the gaushala. This I can feel at times when His sweet voice tells us about some incident at His gaushala, and how much He loves being here with His beloved Gomata, as He calls them.
Whatever offering is made to Shreeji at His mandir for some particular manorath, He returns back savaya (25% more) to the doner. Finally nothing is actually kept by Shreeji. Shreeji Himself says that it is a miracle that in spite of returning 25% more than is received; His treasury never runs empty. So in the ultimate He does not keep anything from any vaishnav. It is only at the gaushala bhent that He accepts all totally and nothing is returned to the giver. Gurushree tells me that Shreeji does the karm of taking His cows to graze; if anyone helps Him in this karm of His, He is the happiest and only blessings are returned. Not that we do this offering for return of blessings, it is with the bhao of doing some work for Shreeji; as ultimately in devotion to Thakurji it is only the purity of bhao that matters. Nothing else will help you get closer to Him.