Gunamai devi dasi Remembers Srila Prabhupada
Prabhupada Memories
Interview 01
Gunamai: Prabhupada laughed and said, “How do you like your name?” I thought, “Fine. It’s nice.” Afterwards I realized that the reason he named me Guna was because I’m from Laguna Beach, but at the time it didn’t click. I was too much in awe. Then Prabhupada asked me to paint the Bhagavad-gita. I said, “How?” He said, “You have to become like Sanjaya. Sanjaya saw the whole battle in his mind as if it were on television.” I said, “Okay, I’ll try.” Prabhupada talked about how Jadurani didn’t know how to paint, but she did it, and Krishna instructed her and gave her the ability to do it. Prabhupada also wanted me to paint one of the two Kartamasha Deities he had. He told me how he wanted Kartamasha to be painted and the story of how he got the Deity. Then he said, “If you have any questions or you need to talk to me, just come up,” but I never did. There were guards around, and I was too shy to say, “I need to talk to Prabhupada.” I still beat myself on the head because I didn’t go.
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