[Nectar] Srila Prabhupada could do everything through any of us

[Guest guest]

"I remember, when I was pujari, I was very happy doing deity worship

day and night, year after year, but I would always read Srila

Prabhupada´s books, hear his tapes, hear about how Srila Prabhupada is

so eager for us to preach. So I was praying to the deities, "I am very

grateful to wprship You. But my Guru Maharaj keeps talking about

preaching. Ultimately I want to please him. I don´t know what

preaching is. But I want to please him. So whatever You think is best."

And sometime later I was given an order, "We need more devotees in the

temple. Gou out and preach." I never asked. And who was I? From New

Vrndavan. I smelt like a cow because I would milk cows. I had one dhoti

that had holes in it and an old blanket from the World War II army that

had holes in it. I was told to preach. Very little education. I went to

one semester of a Junior College. And here I was in Universities

speaking to PhD candidates, Professors, and they would be sitting in

rapt attention, challenging and being defeated. And I was thinking,

"What´s happening? Who is doing this? I am a fool. I don´t know

much." But if we somehow or other feel that urgency, Srila Prabhupada

could do everything through any of us." (quoted from HH Radhanath

Swami´s Bodhamrit - Nectar of Realization, part II, ps. 1-2)