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Prabhupada, \u201cYou can also see God in six months if you simply become this sincere and determined.\u201d
\nNarada Muni: I was selling books from a book cart at the 1971 Ratha-yatra when I asked someone to take my place for a minute so I could run to see Srila Prabhupada on the Ratha-yatra cart before it left.
\nWhen I saw him, I felt that Srila Prabhupada looked at me, and everybody probably felt the same thing.
\nBut I know Srila Prabhupada looked at me, acknowledged me and smiled at me, and I felt wonderful.
\nAfterwards, I went with some others to Srila Prabhupada\u2019s apartment when he was getting a massage and we reported to Srila Prabhupada how many books we\u2019d sold and we brought him the big bags of laxmi we\u2019d collected.
\nSrila Prabhupada said, \u201cVery, very nice. Thank you so much.\u201d Srila Prabhupada had nothing to thank us for, we had everything to thank him for, but he thanked us.
\nAnother time Prabhupada told us, \u201cThank you very much for your kind feelings of appreciation for my humble service unto you. You are all helping me in pushing forward this mission of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, coming down by disciplic succession to my guru maharaj.\u201d
\nOnce in New Vrindavan some reviews arrived from educators and scholars in different parts of the world glorifying Srila Prabhupada\u2019s books.
\nWhen we were having darshan, Srila Prabhupada had somebody read one particular review. In it, a well-known person wrote that Srila Prabhupada was so prolific and the books he wrote were so profound that they could not be written by an ordinary soul.
\n\u201cIt is my belief,\u201d he wrote, \u201cthat Srila Prabhupada is Vyasadeva himself.\u201d
\nSrila Prabhupada lit up with a big smile and everyone said, \u201cJaya, Prabhupada! Jaya, Srila Prabhupada!\u201d
\nWe really don\u2019t know who Srila Prabhupada is. No one else accomplished what he accomplished, and it\u2019s unlikely that anyone will for a long time.
\nSrila Prabhupada was directly empowered and sent by Krishna, and he came to the most fallen place.
\nPrabhupada once said that Krishna asked him to come to the material world, \u201cWill you please go and deliver them?\u201d
\nSrila Prabhupada didn\u2019t want to leave Vrindavan, but he came out of his great compassion.
\nIn his lecture Srila Prabhupada explained how nothing could shake Dhruva Maharaj\u2019s determined vow to realize God and therefore he was successful\u2014he saw God.
\nPrabhupada said, \u201cSimilarly, you can also see God in six months if you simply become this sincere and determined.\u201d
\nSincerity, Srila Prabhupada explained, is the qualification for realizing Krishna.
\nIn New York a reporter asked Prabhupada, \u201cHow old were you when you realized God?\u201d
\nSrila Prabhupada didn\u2019t want to glorify himself but to glorify his spiritual master and Krishna.
\nPrabhupada said, \u201cGod is a person like you and me. The difference is that we are many and God is one, our leader. Now, what is the difference between the one and the many? He maintains all these many, He maintains us. But He is also a person like you and me. Do you follow?\u201d
\nThis reporter persisted, \u201cYes, I appreciate your answer, but at what age did you realize the highest truth? At what physical age \u2026 ?\u201d
\nPrabhupada explained, \u201cThere is no question of age. Realization of God should be from the very beginning of life.\u201d
\nThe reporter said, \u201cI understand that, Swamiji. My question to you was at what age did you yourself realize the highest truth?\u201d
\nSrila Prabhupada said, \u201cOf course, we were born in a very nice family. Practically from the very beginning of our lives my father educated us in this way.\u201d
\nThe reporter wouldn\u2019t give up, \u201cI understand that. I mean at what time did you have your own personal realization, Swamiji? At what age?\u201d
\nPrabhupada said, \u201cFrom the age of four or five years.\u201d
\nIn the Bhagavatam Srila Prabhupada wrote about some of his childhood pastimes and he wrote about Maharaj Pariksit and others who also had symptoms of being God conscious children.
\nSrila Prabhupada has always been God conscious. He came into this world God conscious, he left this world God conscious, and now he\u2019s undoubtedly giving God consciousness to others on another planet.
\nMy hope is that all of us can eternally be with him and somehow serve him in his mission.
\n\u2014Narada Muni
\nExcerpt from \u201cMemories-Anecdotes of a Modern-Day Saint\u201d
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Prabhupada, “You can also see God in six months if you simply become this sincere and determined.”
\nNarada Muni: I was selling books from a book cart at the 1971 Ratha-yatra when I asked someone to take my place for a minute so I could run to see Srila Prabhupada on the Ratha-yatra cart before it left.
\nWhen I saw him, I felt that Srila Prabhupada looked at me, and everybody probably felt the same thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65247,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32108\/revisions\/65247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}