Srila Prabhupadas nector

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April 30

 

 

Srila Prabhupada explained that grhasthas could not

live in the temple building. If the temple had land

and there were other buildings, grhasthas could live

in those if they paid rent, but rent money could not

come from the Society.

About the importance of advanced degrees, Srila

Prabhupada said, "We are not after any degrees like

Ph.D. The only title we will accept is to be known as

a pure devotee, sarvopadhi vinirmuktam."

Srila Prabhupada said that he did not expect Morarji

Desai to come here. I said that politicians were

afraid to meet him because Prabhupada's reputation was

such that, no matter how important the person was,

Prabhupada spoke about dogs, hogs, camels and asses.

Srila Prabhupada said it was like a boy saying, "My

father says you are a dog." You couldn't get angry at

the boy; he was only repeating what his father had

said. "So we are like child repeating Krsna's words,

mudha."

 

He was the pet child of his mother. Once, he swallowed

a watermelon seed, and his friends told him it would

grow into a tree in his stomach. Prabhupada ran to his

mother, who assured him there was no need to worry.

She would say a mantra to prevent any harm. He was so

dependent on her, he would even ask her for permission

to go to the privy. "Who is stopping you?" she would

ask. "Yes, you can go." Only then he would go.

Srila Prabhupada stated, "The sterilization program

will fail. As they cannot stop death, so they cannot

stop birth. War, pestilence and plague are mentioned

in sastra as checking population. There is no mention

of sterilization. One man may be sterilized, but

others will not. The husband will be sterilized but

the wife will want a child. This will lead to

irreligion." I mentioned the incident in

Srimad-Bhagavatam of Somadeva and the wife of

Brhaspati. Srila Prabhupada said that the only thing

they can succeed in developing is atheism.

 

Srila Prabhupada asked to see Gopala Krsna again. He

wanted to discuss establishing some places of memory

where he had enacted some of his pastimes,

specifically the temple in Delhi, where he had once

lived, and the Kesi-ghata temple in Vrndavana. Also

Calcutta and perhaps Allahabad. In each place, a

memorial room should be maintained with a statue of

him. I asked about his footprints. He said, "Yes,

padapitah."

 

- From the TKG's Diary by HH Tamal Krishna Goswami Maharaj

 

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