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\u201cWherever you go and whoever you meet, just tell them about Krishna, and in that way, by Lord Chaitanya\u2019s order, become a guru.\u201d “Wherever you go and whoever you meet, just tell them about Krishna, and in that way, by Lord Chaitanya’s order, become a guru.”
\nVaiyasaki das: On our way back driving through the Himalayas, we passed an apiary with beehives, and, knowing that Prabhupada was in Vrindavan, we thought, \u201cWow, wouldn\u2019t that be great to get Prabhupada some real Himalayan honey?\u201d
\nWe got a big bottle. Jagadish was Prabhupada\u2019s secretary at that time, and he knew Satyanarayan and me, so he arranged for Prabhupada to see us.
\nWe went into Prabhupada\u2019s room when Prabhupada was sitting with Gopal Krishna and speaking to an Indian gentleman. When we came in he turned around and said, \u201cHere are two very nice boys.\u201d
\nWe sat down, and Jagadish introduced us. Satyanarayan explained that we were in the Library Party and had been preaching in Kashmir.
\nPrabhupada was very pleased that we were distributing his books. When he heard we were in Kashmir, he opened his eyes really wide and said,
\n\u201cAh, Kashmir. I went to Kashmir. Do you remember when you come over the crest of the hill and you see the Kashmir valley?\u201d We said, \u201cYes, Prabhupada, we saw it.\u201d
\nHe said, \u201cYes, I distributed my books there.\u201d Then I said,
\n\u201cSrila Prabhupada, I met that gentleman. He bought your first three volumes from you, and now he has taken the whole set, a standing order.\u201d
\nSrila Prabhupada was reminiscing about that and spoke about the importance of preaching.
\nAfter five or ten minutes, just before we left, he looked me right in the eye and said, \u201cSo, wherever you go and whoever you meet, just tell them about Krishna, and in that way, by Lord Chaitanya\u2019s order, become a guru.\u201d
\nThat left a big impression on me, because he was looking right at me. When I left I thought, \u201cWow, if I don\u2019t tell people about Krishna, I\u2019m in total maya. This is my mission.\u201d
\nWe gave Prabhupada the bottle of honey, which he graciously accepted. Later Palika, who was Prabhupada\u2019s cook, told us that every morning Prabhupada had a little bit of that honey with his breakfast.
\nIt was wonderful to travel with Srila Prabhupada in an airplane. The first time Srila Prabhupada went to Australia to bring the Deities there, Vegavan prabhu was with him, carrying one of the Deities.
\nThey brought their lunch with them, and after the plane took off they unpacked it, Srila Prabhupada served it, and everyone took prasadam.
\nWhen they had finished, Prabhupada rinsed his mouth and washed his hands. Then he started cleaning his front teeth with a toothpick.
\nVegavan thought, \u201cOh, you have to clean your mouth after you eat,\u201d and he pulled out a toothbrush and toothpaste from his bag.
\nPrabhupada said, \u201cWhat you are doing?\u201d Vegavan said, \u201cI\u2019m going to brush my teeth, Srila Prabhupada.\u201d
\nPrabhupada said, \u201cThat you do before you take prasad. After prasad, you use a toothpick, because the little pieces in your mouth are also prasadam.\u201d
\nEver since then, I\u2019ve always picked my teeth with a toothpick after prasadam.
\nGargamuni told Srila Prabhupada that two men on the Library Party were distributing Prabhupada\u2019s books to the universities in Indonesia, a Muslim country.
\nAt that time, other devotees, like Padmapani and Tribhuvanath, were also in Muslim countries.
\nPrabhupada was pleased that devotees were going to preach in the Muslim countries, and he told Gargamuni, \u201cI put on my head the dust from the feet of whoever preaches in the Muslim countries.\u201d
\nWhen we heard that, we were in ecstasy. That was wonderful. After Indonesia, we went on to the libraries in Java and then Bali.
\nIt was in Bali that I found out that Prabhupada had left the planet.
\nThat morning I was ready to go to a college for distribution, when I thought I would call our secretary, Aravindaksi devi in Jakarta, to find out how things were going and if books were being sent out and so on.
\nShe said, \u201cHave you heard the news?\u201d I said, \u201cNo, what?\u201d She said, \u201cYou didn\u2019t know?\u201d I said, \u201cI didn\u2019t know.\u201d
\nShe said, \u201cI just heard from the devotees in Singapore that Prabhupada left the planet.\u201d I was shocked. I hung up the phone.
\nI didn\u2019t know what to do, but I thought Prabhupada would want me to go and preach in this college, so I drove there. It was at the other end of Bali.
\nI arrived at the college, met the librarian, and got two standing orders. As I came out, I met the Minister of Culture in Jakarta, who we had met about a month earlier trying to distribute the books to the library in the Cultural Ministry.
\nHe said to me, \u201cHave you heard about your Guru Maharaj?\u201d I said, \u201cYes, I did. Thank you.\u201d
\nI was amazed that even in a little town in Bali, everybody knew that Prabhupada had left the planet.
\nAfter that I met Satyanarayan, who hadn\u2019t heard. I had to break the news to him. Immediately he broke down and sobbed uncontrollably, crying and crying.
\nI realized that I was stonehearted. I hadn\u2019t broken down and sobbed. I was sad, and tears came to my eyes, but I saw that Satyanarayan had so much love for Prabhupada, and I respected him for that.
\nI felt, \u201cIf only I could have such a relationship with Prabhupada; if only I could have felt that.\u201d
\n\u2014Vaiyasaki
\nExcerpt from \u201cMemories-Anecdotes of a Modern-Day Saint\u201d
\nby Siddhanta das
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