Remembering Srila Prabhupads Humility

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Little Drops of Nectar: Prabhupada's Humility

 

 

Once, sometime after being chastised by Srila

Prabhupada, Satadhanya dasa went to the roof and found

Prabhupada by himself. Satadhanya immediately paid his

dandavats and he told Prabhupada that he felt

Prabhupada had blessed him when he chastised him

earlier that day. Prabhupada smiled. Satadhanya said

that his experience of being chastised was just like

the story Prabhupada told of how he was chastised by

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. Again Prabhupada

smiled. Then Satadhanya said, "But I feel great

anxiety." With great humility, Prabhupada said, "I

didn't mean anything by that. Please don't feel that

way. I didn't mean to upset you." Satadhanya then felt

very bad, and Prabhupada said it was proper for a

disciple to feel anxiety in relating to his spiritual

master.

 

 

 

On a summer evening in Vrndavana in 1977, Tamala Krsna

Goswami told Prabhupada how much he appreciated

Prabhupada's books. Prabhupada then began to cry. "I

am only a child," he said, "but I have tried to please

my Guru Maharaja." He then said that he did not write

the books, but that they were written by Krsna and his

Guru Maharaja. Later he reprimanded Upendra for

leaving some cabinet doors open. Then he told Upendra

that although he chastised him very severely, he was

actually praying to Krsna, "I cannot deliver them. You

do."

 

Nava-yogendra Swami, interview; Murti dasa, interview;

Giriraja Swami, interview; Satadhanya dasa, interview;

Tamala Krsna Goswami, journal.

 

 

- From the Prabhupada Nectar by HH Satsvarupa dasa

Goswami Maharaj

 

 

 

 

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