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Prabhupada Memories

Interview 01

Karnamrita: In 1971 the Berkeley temple was on Durant Street. Srila Prabhupada sat down on his vyasasan and he started chanting the Samsara prayers. We all chanted along with him, and when Prabhupada got to the third prayer, which is, “The spiritual master engages the disciples in the service of the Lord,” he just started crying. I was kind of dumbfounded. I didn’t know what to think at all, but it was just so powerful. I am not used to people emoting that kind of bhava and emotion, but I realized his tears came because of the love he felt for his disciples. The tears were coming as he was looking around the room at all of us who were there eager to be with our spiritual master. We were just like kids basically, babies, from my perspective now. That was a very small experience, but it was very powerful for me to see. It’s not just the externals that are important; it’s the feeling that we have for the process, for Krishna and for our guru that is really important. That’s what I gleaned from that.

To view the entire unedited video go to Memories 79 - 15 Devotees Share

The full Prabhupada Memories Series can be viewed here and also at www.prabhupadamemories.com

Following Srila Prabhupada

Interview DVD 02

Karnamrita: At the time I was a new devotee, had been a devotee about four months. Of course, I had been hearing Prabhupada’s lectures and reading his books and listening to some of the recordings, and there was a lot of anticipation about Rathayatra in general. But the airport, when we went to the airport to greet him, there were so many devotees there and we were having this huge kirtan waiting for Prabhupada to come.

We were waiting for the plane to come in, and Prabhupada was coming off the plane and he was walking up. It seemed like to me he was by himself. Maybe there were some devotees in the background, but the image I have is Prabhupada was walking up this plank and he had this very innocent expression. I had never really seen a person exemplify that kind of humility before because he was walking up and he had this expression as if to turn around and see who everyone had come to meet.

His eyes were very penetrating, something about his eyes. It seems like Krishna bhakti comes from his eyes or something, but just for a second feeling his glance and just feeling the depth of that glance. And the intensity of emotion that everyone felt, we were just caught up. Everyone around me and myself, tears were just coming from our eyes and just seeing a person who had characteristics that I had never experienced before and feeling the intensity of the kirtan, it was very moving to this day.

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