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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== | |||
===Interview DVD 02=== | |||
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'''Danavir Goswami:''' It wasn’t too long after I joined that the Govinda Prayers started to be played in the morning. The album had come from England, that Radha Krishna Temple album. Just one morning it happened. It seemed quite spontaneous that the deity doors opened up and the Govinda Prayers went on, and Prabhupada went through his normal offering his dandavats in front of each altar. But when he went around and he sat on the vyasasana, tears were coming down his face. He was so pleased by the Govinda Prayers, and he wasn’t able to speak for some time. | |||
When we would come back through the alley, we would stop right beneath Prabhupada’s room and his window and we would continue chanting there until Prabhupada came to the window and traditionally he would wave. On one particular day, we were out there chanting and Prabhupada looked out the window and waved. And then he told Karandhar, “Don’t involve them in this,” and he was speaking about the controversy that was going on with the sannyasis. He said, “Don’t involve them in this, they are innocent.” | |||
Prabhupada had been in L.A. for eight months, it was just the longest period of time. The devotees in L.A. had become so accustomed to Prabhupada’s presence every day. They had him and they cherished him, and the L.A. temple was growing like anything. Prabhupada’s presence just seemed to make everything blossom. Devotees were joining every day, everything was really expanding. So the devotees were very attached to Prabhupada. Eight months he had been there. Then not only was he leaving, which they kind of thought that he would never leave; and the L.A. temple had set itself up, it was managing in such a way that he didn’t have to manage directly. He had good managers there, and he was very pleased with it. So he could stay there peacefully and do his translation work and do his writing and do whatever he wanted and there was no inconvenience for him. So when Prabhupada said he was leaving, it was a shock. And then not only did he say he was leaving, but he said because he was old there was a good chance he wouldn’t return but we should carry on the movement anyway. So devotees took that very hard. At the airport, everyone was crying. We ran out to the fence to watch the plane and new devotees, old devotees, everybody was crying. | |||
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'''Danavir Goswami:''' One time we were on the beach walking like this and the crabs were going out, and the crabs were running into the water as it was coming in. So Prabhupada indicated that they had a relationship. And he was explaining that a big elephant cannot go against the waves of the sea even though he’s so strong, but a little fish can swim out against the waves and the reason is because the fish has an intimate relationship with the sea. So in the same way a devotee, he can surpass all others because of his intimate relationship with Krishna. He can do things that nondevotees cannot accomplish. | |||
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'''Danavir Goswami:''' In San Francisco when Bhakta das was president up there, he organized a special worship program for Prabhupada to raise funds. It was auctioned off, these different services like bathing his feet with milk or water or honey. Temple presidents could bid and whoever bid the most got to do that service for Prabhupada, and at the end all the money would be given to Prabhupada as a donation. So at that time, I had a little bit of money from an inheritance, small inheritance, and one especially I wanted to win was bathing his feet with honey because I thought that that one would take longer so I would be able to get more time serving Prabhupada touching his feet than the other substances. So I won that one. And while I was pouring the honey over Prabhupada’s feet, I’m trying to stretch it out as long as possible and Prabhupada said, “Hurry up.” So I had to go faster. Prabhupada wasn’t enjoying being worshiped as we might think that we would enjoy being worshiped and we’d like to drag it out as long as possible, but he was doing it as a service. | |||
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'''Danavir Goswami:''' I remember one time we were in the garden, and I asked Prabhupada about chanting fast on japa. He said, “Yes, you can chant Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare, but you must hear all 32 syllables.” He demonstrated. And then he said, “Haridas Thakur was chanting fast. He was chanting 333,000 names.” So he asked how many rounds that was. Karandhar calculated it was 192. Then Prabhupada said, “So if he was chanting five minutes per round, how many hours would that take?” and Karandhar said, “Sixteen.” So he said, “Yes, he was chanting 16 hours of japa.” | |||
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Prabhupada Memories
Interview 01
Danavir Goswami: Prabhupada spoke to guests at the Sunday night programs. At the end of his lecture he asked if there were any questions, and one old lady cried out, “Why have you come so late?” She was practically in tears that she had missed the opportunity to take to Krishna consciousness when she was younger. Prabhupada said, “Because you are so late.” On another occasion, another old person asked the same question, and Prabhupada answered in a different way; He said, “Better late than never.” Krishna sends the pure devotee when someone’s ready. If you’re not ready then Krishna won’t send.
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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 02
Danavir Goswami: It wasn’t too long after I joined that the Govinda Prayers started to be played in the morning. The album had come from England, that Radha Krishna Temple album. Just one morning it happened. It seemed quite spontaneous that the deity doors opened up and the Govinda Prayers went on, and Prabhupada went through his normal offering his dandavats in front of each altar. But when he went around and he sat on the vyasasana, tears were coming down his face. He was so pleased by the Govinda Prayers, and he wasn’t able to speak for some time.
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Interview DVD 03
Danavir Goswami: One time we were on the beach walking like this and the crabs were going out, and the crabs were running into the water as it was coming in. So Prabhupada indicated that they had a relationship. And he was explaining that a big elephant cannot go against the waves of the sea even though he’s so strong, but a little fish can swim out against the waves and the reason is because the fish has an intimate relationship with the sea. So in the same way a devotee, he can surpass all others because of his intimate relationship with Krishna. He can do things that nondevotees cannot accomplish. |
Interview DVD 07
Danavir Goswami: In San Francisco when Bhakta das was president up there, he organized a special worship program for Prabhupada to raise funds. It was auctioned off, these different services like bathing his feet with milk or water or honey. Temple presidents could bid and whoever bid the most got to do that service for Prabhupada, and at the end all the money would be given to Prabhupada as a donation. So at that time, I had a little bit of money from an inheritance, small inheritance, and one especially I wanted to win was bathing his feet with honey because I thought that that one would take longer so I would be able to get more time serving Prabhupada touching his feet than the other substances. So I won that one. And while I was pouring the honey over Prabhupada’s feet, I’m trying to stretch it out as long as possible and Prabhupada said, “Hurry up.” So I had to go faster. Prabhupada wasn’t enjoying being worshiped as we might think that we would enjoy being worshiped and we’d like to drag it out as long as possible, but he was doing it as a service. |
Interview DVD 09
Danavir Goswami: I remember one time we were in the garden, and I asked Prabhupada about chanting fast on japa. He said, “Yes, you can chant Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare, but you must hear all 32 syllables.” He demonstrated. And then he said, “Haridas Thakur was chanting fast. He was chanting 333,000 names.” So he asked how many rounds that was. Karandhar calculated it was 192. Then Prabhupada said, “So if he was chanting five minutes per round, how many hours would that take?” and Karandhar said, “Sixteen.” So he said, “Yes, he was chanting 16 hours of japa.” |