one great qualification

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> Purnacandra Prabhu recently told this anecdote.

>

> Tamala Krishna Maharaja was in hospital in Bombay for a hernia operation

> when Srila Prabhupada came to visit him. Maharaja recounted that the night

> before he had a dream wherein Srila Prabhupada was making a report to the

> previous acaryas:

>

> "These people I'm preaching to are totally disqualified. They have no good

> qualities, no culture, no spiritual knowledge, no sense control or

> anything else required for spiritual life. But they have one great

> qualification: they do whatever I say."

>

> Srila Prabhupada confirmed the verity of this dream.

>

> Are there any more details about this wonderful story?

>

> There is another anecdote from India of local people criticizing Srila

> Prabhupada's disciples for their lack of culture, to which Srila

> Prabhupada agreed, but said the same thing: "They have one great

> qualification: they do whatever I say." Does anyone know more about this

> incident?

 

Tamala Krishna Maharaja commented on this as follows:

 

> The story that Purnacandra Prabhu narrated is more or less correct. Here

> are further details.

>

> In 1974, on the instruction of Srila Prabhupäda, I was in a hospital in

> Bombay for an operation. Just before the surgery I closed my eyes to take

> shelter of Sri Sri Radha Rasabihari and Srila Prabhupada and envisioned

> the arati ceremony to Their Lordships. Then the anesthesia took effect.

> While I was unconscious I had a dream that the previous acaryas called

> Srila Prabhpada before them. They asked him for the report of his

> preaching activities on this planet. He then reported much as Purnacandra

> Prabhu told you, etc. with the exception that at the end Prabhupada said,

> "The one good qualification they have is that they somehow have taken

> shelter at my feet." After the surgery I was wheeled back into my hospital

> room and found Srila Prabhupada waiting for me there. He had driven all

> the way from Juhu into the centre of Bombay in a jeep to try to have the

> operation stopped. It was at that time that I told him of my dream and His

> Divine Grace confirmed it.

>

> I can also speak something about the other incident, since I was present.

> It was in Vrndavana perhaps in 1973. It took place in Srila Prabhupada's

> sitting room. Some Brijabasi guests were with him and were criticizing. It

> was at that time that Srila Prabhupada said what you have written.