Jayadvaita Swami Remembers Srila Prabhupada
Jayadvaita Swami: A standard Sunday feast menu included a few different kinds of rice—pushpanna, white rice, and maybe one other. There would be a wet subji like Prabhupada’s cauliflower and potatoes and a dry subji and
sometimes some other subji also. There were always spicy cauliflower and pea samosas, cooked dry, and a couple different kinds of pakoras. There were white puris, different kinds of noodles, a few different chutneys—plum, apple, raisin, pineapple; and a variety of sweets like simply wonderfuls, halava, sweet rice, and gulabjamans. People were jolly. No wonder people joined; you’d have to be nuts not to join. The Sunday feast was not a small thing. Many years later, book distribution was a big thing, and Prabhupada said one person could remain at the temple. Everyone else could go distribute his books. In some places the managers got the idea that the feast should be cut down, and they started having four or five preparations so that one person could cook everything and everybody else could distribute books. Prabhupada wrote a letter about that and said, “No, it should be opulent. The feast program should go on full strength.” |
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