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==Prabhupada Memories== | |||
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'''The full Prabhupada Memories Series can be viewed [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ajeil3NjKKgeN9-fxeWwQ here] and also at [https://www.prabhupadamemories.com www.prabhupadamemories.com]''' | '''The full Prabhupada Memories Series can be viewed [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Ajeil3NjKKgeN9-fxeWwQ here] and also at [https://www.prabhupadamemories.com www.prabhupadamemories.com]''' | ||
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==Following Srila Prabhupada== | |||
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'''Prabhavisnu Swami:''' So I often had the chance to drive Prabhupada from the temple to the park where he was going to walk in our Ford Transit sankirtan van, and he would sit in the front seat and chant japa quietly. Sometimes he would be reciting Siksastakam in a barely audible voice, ceto darpana marjanam, he would sing it to himself. I remember once we were walking in Hyde Park and there was a big group of devotees and they were all chanting japa so it made quite a bit of noise, and there was some bum sleeping on a park bench. So he was woken up by this, and then he saw this big crowd of devotees bearing down on him and he was a bit frightened or freaked out. Then Prabhupada said, “Good morning,” in a very polite way, and then he responded. | |||
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'''Prabhavisnu Swami:''' I went to Vrindavan, and I had a letter from Jayapataka Maharaj explaining about the idea of going to Nepal, to go and start a center. So Prabhupada got the letter, and then he called me. He was sitting on the veranda upstairs, and he looked very ill. I had never seen him looking so ill. And then he welcomed me and he thanked me for preaching in Bangladesh. Then he told a story about one Bengali poet, Michael Madhusudan Dutta. He had gone to London, and he squandered all his money. Then he was asking everyone to please help him, and no one would give him any money except this one gentleman called Vidyasagar. So he gave him some money, and so this poet glorified that man. He said, “You’ve got the courage of an Englishman and the heart of a Bengali mother.” So then Prabhupada said that “You are an Englishman, a Britisher, and you have to show that courage. The British were famous for expanding an empire.” He said, “They expanded an empire all over the world. Even America is your creation. So similarly you should expand the empire of Krishna consciousness and do it with the courage of an Englishman and the heart of a Bengali mother.” | |||
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Latest revision as of 16:03, 17 January 2022
Prabhupada Memories
Interview 01
Prabhavishnu Swami: Once, Prabhupada was giving darshan on the roof, when somebody brought him some mangoes. Prabhupada asked one of the brahmacharis to cut the mangoes, but that brahmachari didn’t know how to cut them properly. So Srila Prabhupada took the mango and showed how to cut it. Prabhupada said that a brahmachari should be expert in everything.
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To view the entire unedited video go to Memories 25 - Sama Priya dd, Vrindabaneshvari dd, Kanka dd, Deva Didhiti dd, Bhavat and others
The full Prabhupada Memories Series can be viewed here and also at www.prabhupadamemories.com
Following Srila Prabhupada
Interview DVD 03
Prabhavisnu Swami: So I often had the chance to drive Prabhupada from the temple to the park where he was going to walk in our Ford Transit sankirtan van, and he would sit in the front seat and chant japa quietly. Sometimes he would be reciting Siksastakam in a barely audible voice, ceto darpana marjanam, he would sing it to himself. I remember once we were walking in Hyde Park and there was a big group of devotees and they were all chanting japa so it made quite a bit of noise, and there was some bum sleeping on a park bench. So he was woken up by this, and then he saw this big crowd of devotees bearing down on him and he was a bit frightened or freaked out. Then Prabhupada said, “Good morning,” in a very polite way, and then he responded. |
Interview DVD 11
Prabhavisnu Swami: I went to Vrindavan, and I had a letter from Jayapataka Maharaj explaining about the idea of going to Nepal, to go and start a center. So Prabhupada got the letter, and then he called me. He was sitting on the veranda upstairs, and he looked very ill. I had never seen him looking so ill. And then he welcomed me and he thanked me for preaching in Bangladesh. Then he told a story about one Bengali poet, Michael Madhusudan Dutta. He had gone to London, and he squandered all his money. Then he was asking everyone to please help him, and no one would give him any money except this one gentleman called Vidyasagar. So he gave him some money, and so this poet glorified that man. He said, “You’ve got the courage of an Englishman and the heart of a Bengali mother.” So then Prabhupada said that “You are an Englishman, a Britisher, and you have to show that courage. The British were famous for expanding an empire.” He said, “They expanded an empire all over the world. Even America is your creation. So similarly you should expand the empire of Krishna consciousness and do it with the courage of an Englishman and the heart of a Bengali mother.” |