Urvasi devi dasi: I was serving at the Montreal temple, Canada, and there were a lot of devotees going to India; and before we left, I went back home to Los Angeles, where my parents live, to give them a visit. As I was leaving there, my mother asked me out of the blue, she said, “Is there something I can give to you to take to your spiritual master?”
I was really taken aback by that question and I said, “Oh, that’s so nice.” I said, “I don’t know. What would you like to give him?” She said, “I could make him some guava jam,” because we had fruit trees at the property. So I told her that would be really nice. So she made the guava jam, and she wrote on there “For Srila Prabhupada.”
When I was in Vrindavan, I went up to Srila Prabhupada’s quarters and handed it through to one of his servants and that was that. Then I found out for two days that Prabhupada’s servant was looking for me. He had remembered what I looked like, but he didn’t know my name.
Finally he found me, and he said that Srila Prabhupada really loved the jam and he wanted my mother’s name and address because Srila Prabhupada wanted to write her a thank you letter. There it was, all these devotees, huge event, the opening of the temple, the installation of the Deities, and Srila Prabhupada was so concerned to write a thank you letter.
So my parents received the letter from Srila Prabhupada and he was thanking my mom so nicely for this guava jam, and he told her that it was his favorite jam and that his mother used to make guava jam for him. Then he went on to say that “Do not worry about your daughter. I am taking care of her. She is nicely engaged in the Lord’s service.” It was just a really sweet letter. It’s so amazing that Srila Prabhupada took that time to recognize that little gift from my mother in amongst so much activity going on and so many devotees.
Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Urvasi Dasi
As Mother Urvasi has gone back to Srila Prabhupada recently this pastime of service to a pure devotee is just amazing. Mother of Urvasi Devi who made the jam later passed away while hearing Srila Prabhupada's japa and Krshna book. What an amazing life of service.
Srila Prabhupada ki jai !!!
Mother Urvasi ki Jai !!!
Below is the letter which Srila Prabhupada wrote to her mother when he received the jam.
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My dear Mr. & Mrs. Kimmel,
Please accept my greetings. I have received your kind offering of guava jam
through your daughter, Urvasi devi dasi. I
wanted to thank you very much for becoming so much interested in our Krishna
Consciousness movement. Actually, because Krishna Consciousness is the nature of the soul, it is not unusual that one
becomes attracted to the method. We are
trying very hard to give everyone in the
world, in all walks of life, a chance to hear
the message of Krishna and to take up the
process which is recommended in the
Bhagavad-gita for becoming freed from
the cycle of birth and death, and thus go
back to the kingdom of God to render eternal service to Him. I sincerely hope that
you will continue the process as your good
daughter has done and achieved the perfection of human life.
I hope this meets you in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Svami
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