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Prabhupada Memories
Interview 01
Adideva: The first time I physically saw Srila Prabhupada was in the New York temple on Henry Street in 1972, right after Ratha-yatra. I had met devotees in Texas and they had encouraged me to go and meet Prabhupada. I went with my sculptor teacher, who later became Murti das and we weren’t there twenty minutes before we were escorted up into Prabhupada’s room. Prabhupada wasn’t there as he was downstairs using the restroom. When I first saw Prabhupada we were just standing there, mesmerized like deer in a headlight. Prabhupada was dressed in his gumsha and he had his brahmin thread wrapped around his ear. We both hit the floor. At that point we didn’t even know the prayers so we just mumbled some non-descript sounds. My first impression of Prabhupada was how regal he was even in this very domestic situation. The first words out of his mouth were, “I’m not a king. This is not for me. This is an educational facility for teaching Krishna consciousness.” He could tell that my teacher and I were pretty wound up and so he immediately started with small talk. We went into his room and he just started asking us about Visnujana Swami and about Texas. “Is it hot there? Do you like wearing dhotis in Texas?” That sort of broke the ice. Then Prabhupada asked his secretary, Arovinda to bring in a drawing of Panchatattva. Prabhupada knew we were sculptors and so he said, “Can you do this? Can you produce these? We’d like to put them in our temples all over the world.” I had done a little figurative work and taken a lot of life drawing but I’d never done clay figurative pieces. I said, “Yes Prabhupada, we can do it.” Murti das was a little wiser than I was so he said, “We’ll try.” Prabhupada even gave us a size. He said, “About forty inches.” Years later we produced a set of Panchatattva for Hawaii and before we sent them we measured them and they were about forty inches. We hadn’t planned it but it just happened that way.
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To view the entire unedited video go to Memories 53 - The Alachua Clan 2
The full Prabhupada Memories Series can be viewed here and also at www.prabhupadamemories.com