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Srila Prabhupada: \u201cYou know, they think we\u2019re CIA in Bengal.\u201d
\nSravanananda: During one Ratha-yatra in New York where both Prabhupada and Jayananda attended, I hired a professional film crew to document the entire event.
\nIt was a random thing I did just so I could take it back with me to India and show everyone there.
\nIn India we had a portable briefcase projector called a Fairchild that was ideal for viewing.
\nIt would pop open and people could watch movies right on their desk or we could flip the lens and reflect it on a large sheet for the villagers.
\nWhen I did return to Madras with the film I was able to show it to Srila Prabhupada and he really liked it.
\nI was very happy I could please him.
\nThe first thing he said was, \u201cYou know, they think we\u2019re CIA in Bengal.\u201d
\nPrabhupada said, \u201cHow would people think we\u2019re CIA and put on a Ratha-yatra in Manhattan? What CIA would put on a Ratha-yatra in Manhattan?\u201d
\nPrabhupada said to me, \u201cWould you mind going to Bengal and show this in every town and village?\u201d
\nI never thought of that since I was totally entrenched in Madras.
\nWhen Prabhupada asked me to go Bengal I said, \u201cSrila Prabhupada, whatever you want.\u201d
\nThe way Prabhupada asked me was just the epitome of humility.
\nIt wasn\u2019t a directive, \u201cGo to Bengal.\u201d
\nI went to Bengal and went village to village from the Bay of Bengal, to Darjeeling to Assam.
\nWe showed the movie on screens and had reporters attend as well.
\nWe were traveling on the boat program and we were also distributing Gitar Gans.
\nI wrote a letter to Srila Prabhupada that said we had just distributed sixteen thousand Gitar Gans in one month.
\nPrabhupada wrote a letter back stating, \u201cThat is very results.\u201d
\nI will always remember that, \u201cThat is very results.\u201d
\nWe were ecstatic that we could please him and serve him in separation.
\nPrabhupada\u2019s instructions in his books were extremely powerful and his desire to save every living entity within the universe by the distribution of not only his books, but prasadam and all the paraphernalia that he introduced was all inspiring.
\nPrabhupada was also always gracious.
\nWhen he was a guest at someone\u2019s house, he wasn\u2019t a king.
\nHe was always a servant.
\nHe was always there to serve even his own disciples.
\nI felt his greatest kindness when I listened to the audio of Prabhupada on morning walks in Bombay with Dr. Patel.
\nDr. Patel would always ask aggressive, somewhat condescending, irritable questions to Srila Prabhupada.
\nI never saw Prabhupada upset with him once.
\nI sometimes have to turn off my audio when that man is talking.
\nIt just seems so offensive to me.
\nBut Prabhupada liked that combative mood because he knew the whole world was challenging this philosophy and he was letting us see how to deal with this type of person.
\nIt was almost like Prabhupada was doing the Chinese water torture on him because I met that man after Prabhupada left, and he was crying like a child when the talked about Prabhupada.
\nPrabhupada wore him down because he never got angry with him.
\nHe just kept answering his questions beautifully.
\nI never once had a doubt to this day about Srila Prabhupada and I\u2019m just so happy I found Prabhupada or he found us.
\nThat is the mercy of Srila Prabhupada.
\n\u2014Sravanananda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Srila Prabhupada: “You know, they think we’re CIA in Bengal.”
\nSravanananda: During one Ratha-yatra in New York where both Prabhupada and Jayananda attended, I hired a professional film crew to document the entire event.
\nIt was a random thing I did just so I could take it back with me to India and show everyone there.
\nIn India we had a portable briefcase projector called a Fairchild that was ideal for viewing.
\nIt would pop open and people could watch movies right on their desk or we could flip the lens and reflect it on a large sheet for the villagers.
\nWhen I did return to Madras with the film I was able to show it to Srila Prabhupada and he really liked it.
\nI was very happy I could please him.
\nThe first thing he said was, “You know, they think we’re CIA in Bengal.”
\nPrabhupada said, “How would people think we’re CIA and put on a Ratha-yatra in Manhattan? What CIA would put on a Ratha-yatra in Manhattan?”
\nPrabhupada said to me, “Would you mind going to Bengal and show this in every town and village?”
\nI never thought of that since I was totally entrenched in Madras.
\nWhen Prabhupada asked me to go Bengal I said, “Srila Prabhupada, whatever you want.”
\nThe way Prabhupada asked me was just the epitome of humility.
\nIt wasn’t a directive, “Go to Bengal.”
\nI went to Bengal and went village to village from the Bay of Bengal, to Darjeeling to Assam.
\nWe showed the movie on screens and had reporters attend as well.
\nWe were traveling on the boat program and we were also distributing Gitar Gans.
\nI wrote a letter to Srila Prabhupada that said we had just distributed sixteen thousand Gitar Gans in one month.
\nPrabhupada wrote a letter back stating, “That is very results.”
\nI will always remember that, “That is very results.”
\nWe were ecstatic that we could please him and serve him in separation.
\nPrabhupada’s instructions in his books were extremely powerful and his desire to save every living entity within the universe by the distribution of not only his books, but prasadam and all the paraphernalia that he introduced was all inspiring.
\nPrabhupada was also always gracious.
\nWhen he was a guest at someone’s house, he wasn’t a king.
\nHe was always a servant.
\nHe was always there to serve even his own disciples.
\nI felt his greatest kindness when I listened to the audio of Prabhupada on morning walks in Bombay with Dr. Patel.
\nDr. Patel would always ask aggressive, somewhat condescending, irritable questions to Srila Prabhupada.
\nI never saw Prabhupada upset with him once.
\nI sometimes have to turn off my audio when that man is talking.
\nIt just seems so offensive to me.
\nBut Prabhupada liked that combative mood because he knew the whole world was challenging this philosophy and he was letting us see how to deal with this type of person.
\nIt was almost like Prabhupada was doing the Chinese water torture on him because I met that man after Prabhupada left, and he was crying like a child when the talked about Prabhupada.
\nPrabhupada wore him down because he never got angry with him.
\nHe just kept answering his questions beautifully.
\nI never once had a doubt to this day about Srila Prabhupada and I’m just so happy I found Prabhupada or he found us.
\nThat is the mercy of Srila Prabhupada.
\n—Sravanananda<\/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-54012","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\/54012","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=54012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54013,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54012\/revisions\/54013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}