Remembering 'Srila Prabhupada' - Look! You Have Broken the Floor!

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Srila Prabhupada NectarLook! You Have Broken the

Floor!

 

In Hawaii, one woman disciple went in to see Srila

Prabhupada and brought her one-year-old daughter with

her. The temple president introduced her, telling how

they were trying to arrange that this woman could earn

money for her needs without unduly straining the

temple's finances.

The woman said that she heard there was a job picking

guavas available on the island. Prabhupada said no, a

woman with a child should not take such strenuous

labor. When she said that as an alternative she could

distribute his books, Prabhupada smiled and approved,

"Yes, do that."

While this talk was going on, the woman's young child

began to play with papers on Prabhupada's desk.

"No," said Prabhupada, shaking his finger at the

child.

The woman picked up her child and placed her beside

her, but the little girl crawled forward and started

to touch Prabhupada's feet.

"No!" the mother called out, and she began to drag her

child away, but Prabhupada said, "My papers she should

not touch, but my feet, that is all right. You must

learn how to instruct the child properly."

Knowing that her time in the darsana was soon up, the

mother tried to introduce a philosophical question to

get some spiritual benefit from the rare opportunity

of talking to Srila Prabhupada. She asked, "How do you

become free from fear?" Prabhupada replied by giving

the example of Prahlada Maharaja. For him, Prabhupada

said, he saw everything as coming from Krsna, whether

it was good or bad, whereas for the demon, there was

only fear.

Prabhupada then drank water and held the cup out to

the small child. By now, however, the child was

getting tired and cranky. She refused the water and

threw herself on the ground, hitting her head in a

temper tantrum. Before she actually began to cry,

Prabhupada interrupted her and said, "Look!" pointing

to the floor. "You have broken the floor!" The child

immediately got up, stopped crying, and looked at the

floor. Then Prabhupada gestured that they should

leave.

 

Bhavatarini-devi dasi, interview.

 

- From the Prabhupada Nectar by HH Satsvarupa dasa

Goswami Maharaj

 

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