By Padmapani das
This month marks the 14th anniversary of Tribhuvanatha Prabhu leaving this world. In his memory, I’ve made some postings on Prabhupada Connect website in our “What’s New” section (for a total of six entries). Here’s one that you might find quite interesting:
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Over the years, devotees and friends have asked me what it was like preaching and distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books in the Middle East back in the late Seventies and early Eighties. During that time, our main focus for book distribution was Beirut (Lebanon), Amman (Jordan) and Damascus (Syria). Beirut was our headquarters. For those unaware, there was a civil war raging in Lebanon at the time. After a long trip overland from England, I was surprised to discover the reality of the situation awaiting me because my good friend, Tribhuvanatha Prabhu, had failed to warn me beforehand. When we arrived in Beirut I said to Tribhuvanatha, “You didn’t tell me there was a war going on down here.” Tribhuvanatha replied, “Oh, I forgot!” Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I think the following selection speaks for itself. It was truly “A Season in Hell.
(After seeing the above page (and reading about how Tribhuvanatha conveniently “forgot” to tell me there was a war raging in Beirut at the time), an old friend of his in the U.K. commented:
“That made me laugh. I’m glad I was married and he couldn’t talk me into it!”
Tribhuvanatha — gotta love him!)