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==Prabhupada Memories== | |||
===Interview 01=== | |||
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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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'''Rukmini:''' Once they called and he was coming and Jadurani, who was not much of a cook, asked him if he would be eating before he came or whether they should have something for him to eat when he arrived. So Prabhupada said, “I am just like a cow. I can eat in one pasture and then eat in another pasture also.” | |||
The New York devotees had just acquired this new temple, the second New York temple at 61 2nd Avenue, and they were writing to Prabhupada telling him that the new temple was just like a palace. And I was feeling a lot of anxiety about this because I was thinking, “Prabhupada’s coming and he’s going to be so disappointed when he sees this temple. They’re telling him it’s just like a palace, but it’s just another storefront. It’s a little bit nicer than the first storefront, but it’s just another storefront.” I was thinking, “He’s going to be angry, he’ll be so disappointed, it’s going to be horrible.” So Prabhupada came in and he sat on the vyasasana and he said, “I prayed to Krishna to send me one moon, but Krishna has sent me so many moon-like boys and girls.” That’s what he said. | |||
There were these girls in the New York temple, they were living at home and they would come to the temple. They were going to high school, and they were really nice girls. Prabhupada wanted them to stay in school and stay with their families, and they would come to the temple. I was more of a hippie. I had left home. I was in a different situation. But these girls, when Prabhupada would come, they would…they seemed very juvenile to me, but they really loved Prabhupada. And when he would come, they would scream and treat him like a rock and roll star. I was really quite embarrassed by it, but they were very loving and very devoted. So Prabhupada would come in and they would go, “Swamiji! Swamiji!” and scream and yell. Then at one point Prabhupada called them into his room and he said, “You are the children of the society so, therefore, you must be very grave.” | |||
He was looking around the room on one of these evenings and he said, “I want each one of you to open a temple. I want each and every one of you to open a temple.” And because I’m a very impetuous person, and I was more impetuous then because I was only 16 years old, so I said, “Even the girls, Swamiji?” He said, “Yes, why not? There is no difference.” And he said, “In Nityananda’s absence, Jahnava-devi, she was preaching like anything. There is no difference between boys and girls.” That was very sweet. | |||
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'''Rukmini:''' This was in Berkeley. It was right around the time of the Rathayatra. We were all sitting in Prabhupada’s room, and Baradraj pulled a copy of Teachings of Lord Caitanya off of the shelf and he said, “Prabhupada, usually we see Lord Caitanya depicted as having very long hair.” And Prabhupada said, “Yes, Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He was hippie.” So he said, “Yes, Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He was hippie,” and everyone really started to laugh because he was detecting the mentality of the question. He said, “Therefore, He has come to save you. He was hippie, so He has come to save you.” But because of his Bengali accent, it was difficult to understand whether he was saying “save you.” The “s,” it’s a slightly “sh” in Bengali pronunciation. So people were thinking, “Is he saying ‘save you’ or is he saying ‘shave you’?” So Prabhupada immediately picked up on that and he said, “Yes, He has come to save you and shave you. Caitanya Mahaprabhu has come to save you and shave you,” and he kept repeating it. It was so funny. | |||
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'''Rukmini:''' Once going up to Prabhupada’s room in Los Angeles, Baradraj was walking into Prabhupada’s room a little bit ahead of me and Prabhupada said, “Where is Rukmini?” And he said, “Oh, she’s always busy doing something.” Then I walked in slightly behind him and Prabhupada saw me and he said, “Yes, always stay busy, busy, busy. Otherwise Maya will say, ‘Come and play with me,’” and he held out his arms like someone trying to embrace someone. He said, “Maya will say, ‘Come and play with me.’” | |||
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Latest revision as of 14:47, 30 January 2022
Prabhupada Memories
Interview 01
Rukmini: I was in the San Francisco temple for a couple of weeks and then, when Malati, Shyamasundar, Yamuna, Gurudas, Janaki, Mukunda, and baby Saraswati left on Prabhupada’s order to open the London temple, I went with them as far as Montreal. I was to be initiated in Montreal and then join the devotee-artists in Boston. The group bound for London also stopped in Montreal to get Srila Prabhupada’s blessings for their preaching. So, I first saw Prabhupada in a house on West Prince Arthur Street in Montreal. I went into Prabhupada’s room with the devotees going to London, and my first impression was that a brilliant effulgence was coming from Prabhupada. I had read that when you see your true guru he will be effulgent, and he truly was. He was filling the room with light. Seeing him was like seeing the brahmajyoti.
They presented me to Prabhupada saying, “This is Wendy, she’s only 16 years old, and she wants to be your disciple.” Prabhupada’s compassion was so great. He said, “But where are your parents?” It’s funny to think of the most compassionate Prabhupada concerned that my parents were suffering because I wasn’t with them. That was very sweet. Prabhupada wanted the devotees going to London to start a trend and he told them a story about Mr. Charles Chaplin—how some naughty boys came from behind and nailed his tailcoat to the bench he was sitting on. When Chaplin stood up, his tailcoat ripped. He went into the men’s room, ripped it more, came out and danced with more flourish than the other men. The other dancers thought, “This is the new trend,” and they ripped their tailcoats and started dancing just like him. This was Prabhupada’s instruction on how he wanted the devotees to plant the seed of Krishna consciousness in England, how he wanted them to start a trend, and they did that. They met the Beatles and started a Hare Krishna sensation in England.
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To view the entire unedited video go to Memories 38 - Rukmini dd, Joshomatinandan, Tranakarta
The full Prabhupada Memories Series can be viewed here and also at www.prabhupadamemories.com
Following Srila Prabhupada
Interview DVD 01
Rukmini: Once they called and he was coming and Jadurani, who was not much of a cook, asked him if he would be eating before he came or whether they should have something for him to eat when he arrived. So Prabhupada said, “I am just like a cow. I can eat in one pasture and then eat in another pasture also.”
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Interview DVD 07
Rukmini: This was in Berkeley. It was right around the time of the Rathayatra. We were all sitting in Prabhupada’s room, and Baradraj pulled a copy of Teachings of Lord Caitanya off of the shelf and he said, “Prabhupada, usually we see Lord Caitanya depicted as having very long hair.” And Prabhupada said, “Yes, Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He was hippie.” So he said, “Yes, Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He was hippie,” and everyone really started to laugh because he was detecting the mentality of the question. He said, “Therefore, He has come to save you. He was hippie, so He has come to save you.” But because of his Bengali accent, it was difficult to understand whether he was saying “save you.” The “s,” it’s a slightly “sh” in Bengali pronunciation. So people were thinking, “Is he saying ‘save you’ or is he saying ‘shave you’?” So Prabhupada immediately picked up on that and he said, “Yes, He has come to save you and shave you. Caitanya Mahaprabhu has come to save you and shave you,” and he kept repeating it. It was so funny. |
Interview DVD 09
Rukmini: Once going up to Prabhupada’s room in Los Angeles, Baradraj was walking into Prabhupada’s room a little bit ahead of me and Prabhupada said, “Where is Rukmini?” And he said, “Oh, she’s always busy doing something.” Then I walked in slightly behind him and Prabhupada saw me and he said, “Yes, always stay busy, busy, busy. Otherwise Maya will say, ‘Come and play with me,’” and he held out his arms like someone trying to embrace someone. He said, “Maya will say, ‘Come and play with me.’” |