Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Little Drops of Nectar

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> Little Drops of Nectar

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> In Los Angeles Srila Prabhupada liked to have

> impromptu recording sessions in his room. When the

> recording technician, Krsnakanti dasa, tried to

> schedule a special session, Prabhupada often postponed

> it. But on an impromptu basis, either in the morning,

> afternoon, or evening, whenever Prabhupada would say,

> "Let's record," the devotees would try to immediately

> respond. If they said that they didn't have the right

> microphones or equipment ready, Prabhupada would

> reply, "Then record with whatever you have." He did

> not seem overly concerned about the exact technical

> arrangements, and he did not want to spend much time

> with it either.

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> When he was in the mood, Prabhupada would call for

> different devotees to play the karatalas and mrdanga

> and begin the recording. He liked to set up everything

> quickly and start at once, and he did not want to be

> stopped in the middle. One time, the devotees delayed

> in setting up the tape recorder and microphone, and

> when Prabhupada finally began to sing, they asked him

> twice to please stop because of a technical difficulty

> in the recording process. At the end of that

> particular session, the devotees discovered that the

> machine was defective and had not recorded at all.

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> "This machine is worthless," said Prabhupada. He then

> looked over to the devotee-technician and added, "You

> are worthless also."

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> In the days when there was no Ratha-yatra held in Los

> Angeles, the devotees used to travel en masse to San

> Francisco to attend the Ratha-yatra there. One

> morning, when Prabhupada came down to the temple at

> his usual time, there were only a handful of devotees

> remaining, since most of them had already gone to San

> Francisco. (Srila Prabhupada was to leave later that

> day by plane.) Earlier that morning someone had thrown

> a pipe bomb into the temple room through the back

> door. The bomb had exploded, shaken the building, and

> a few devotees had been cut with small pieces of

> shrapnel.

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> Prabhupada sat on the vyasasana and said he was now

> going to teach them a new mantra. He then taught the

> devotees the Nrsimhadeva mantras, beginning with the

> words namas te narasimhaya. He went over the words

> with them several times and then they sang it

> together.

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> Prabhupada remarked on this occasion that as his

> movement was now growing, the demons were becoming

> more envious. He said that as the Krsna consciousness

> movement grew, there would be attacks, but the

> devotees should not be afraid and should not stop from

> pushing on. They should chant these mantras to Lord

> Nrsimhadeva. "Lord Nrsimhadeva will always protect

> us," said Prabhupada. Prabhupada also approved that

> these mantras be sent out to all his ISKCON centers

> for the devotees to chant.

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> Karandhara dasa, interview.

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> - From the Prabhupada Nectar by HH Satsvarupa dasa

> Goswami Maharaj

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