{"id":32659,"date":"2018-08-09T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/152248301001"},"modified":"2018-08-09T14:01:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T12:01:15","slug":"prabhupada-said-simply-by-circumambulating-krishna-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=32659","title":{"rendered":"Prabhupada said, \u201cSimply by circumambulating Krishna and…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prabhupada said, \u201cSimply by circumambulating Krishna and Balarama, no more traversing up and down in the material universe.\u201d
\nTranakarta das: Pundarika Prabhu\u2019s father was the managing editor of Playboy magazine. His mother was a big writer and they came to see Srila Prabhupada in Chicago in 1975.
\nHis mother was respectful to the devotees and wrote favorable articles, but his father wasn\u2019t so convinced.
\nWhen Prabhupada talked about meat-eating, the father started to debate with Prabhupada a little aggressively.
\nBecause the father was so puffed up, Prabhupada finally stopped speaking and said, \u201cThen why don\u2019t you eat your own son?\u201d
\nPundarika was sitting in the room. Whoa\u2014 there was complete silence. Prabhupada had made his point.
\nOnce in Vrindavan we were circumambulating Krishna-Balaram with Srila Prabhupada. When we came around the side, Prabhupada stopped.
\nHis eyes got big and he looked right in my eyes and said, \u201cSimply by circumambulating Krishna and Balaram in this way, no more traversing up and down in the material universe.\u201d
\nThen he kept walking and chanting, \u201cHare Krishna, Hare Krishna\u2026\u201d Jaya, Prabhupada. Thank you, Prabhupada.
\nSrila Prabhupada cared about and loved the devotees. Like a concerned father, every morning he would come out of his room, come up to me and say, \u201cHow are you this morning?\u201d and he meant it.
\nAnd there wasn\u2019t anything that got by Srila Prabhupada.
\nOne day we were chanting japa with Prabhupada while we circumambulated the Krishna-Balaram Temple, and when we came to the iron gate in the front, Prabhupada asked, \u201cWhy is the lock unlocked?\u201d
\nFrom where we were, you couldn\u2019t see that the lock was unlocked and we looked at each other thinking, \u201cYou can\u2019t tell the lock\u2019s unlocked.\u201d One devotee ran over and, sure enough, it wasn\u2019t locked.
\nAnother morning Prabhupada said, \u201cWhy didn\u2019t the chokidar ring the bell at two o’clock this morning?\u201d
\nThe chokidar was supposed to ring the bell every hour on the hour throughout the day and night.
\nThe next day Prabhupada asked, \u201cWhy didn\u2019t the chokidar ring the bell at three o’clock?\u201d
\nSrila Prabhupada knew everything in Krishna\u2019s service, including the minute things that we were oblivious to.
\nI would love to play the mridanga when Prabhupada sang Jaya Radha-Madhava, and since I followed him nicely, Prabhupada liked my playing. The mercy I got from him will last forever and is what keeps me going right now.
\nOne morning I had the drum on my lap and Prabhupada was getting ready to sing when Hansadutta Maharaj said, \u201cLet me have the drum, I want to play today.\u201d
\nI said, \u201cSure Maharaj\u201d, and gave him the drum. Prabhupada chanted one line, \u201cJaya Radha-Madhava,\u201d and then opened his eyes and motioned twice with his finger, \u201cGive Tranakarta the drum.\u201d
\nI grabbed the drum. Through my whole stay in India, Prabhupada showered unlimited mridanga mercy on me.
\nIf we went to a village or to do a program in somebody\u2019s house, after Prabhupada spoke he would look at me and say, \u201cPlay the mridanga, we will sing now.\u201d
\nOnce Jagadish, a few other devotees and I were in Prabhupada\u2019s room when Prabhupada was speaking in Hindi with some big political guests.
\nIt was ecstasy seeing Prabhupada\u2019s exchanges with these people but we couldn\u2019t understand anything.
\nWhen it was time for them to leave, Prabhupada graciously walked them to the door and in English one of the guests said something to Jagadish.
\nJagadish replied, \u201cAccha,\u201d in the same way that all the devotees say, \u201cAccha.\u201d
\nPrabhupada said, \u201cJust see, he\u2019s speaking Hindi!\u201d Everybody in the room busted up with laughter.
\nPrabhupada cared about and loved the devotees. It was October or November and we were sitting on the marble floor of the Krishna-Balaram mandir.
\nOne morning Prabhupada asked, \u201cAre you cold?\u201d \u201cYes Prabhupada.\u201d
\nThat day Prabhupada sent another devotee and me to Agra to buy big madras carpets to cover the floor so the devotees could stay warm.
\nBesides being the savior of the whole world, Prabhupada, like a loving father, was concerned about the health of all the devotees.
\n\u2014Tranakarta
\nExcerpt from \u201cMemories-Anecdotes of a Modern-Day Saint\u201d
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