Adikarta das Remembers Srila Prabhupada

Adikarta: I was in Calcutta in 1975 or ’76, and there was a brahmachari who wanted to get married. He wanted to personally ask Prabhupada and he asked me to go into the room with him. He said, “Srila Prabhupada I want to get married. Is it all right if I get married?” The only thing Prabhupada said was, “Yes. But how will you maintain your wife?” That was all he said. That was instructive because if you’re going to get married you have to figure out how to make some money to maintain the wife.

The qualities that stood out to me the most about Srila Prabhupada was that he wanted to flood the world with Krishna consciousness and that he had unlimited knowledge. He gave you a lot of confidence. He gave you confidence in him because he was so completely sure and certain and he had so much faith that this was absolute knowledge. He had that air that this is the ultimate, that if you follow me, you’ll be okay.

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