Re: Stats

Posted on February 10, 2010  
Filed under BVKS Sanga

Every morning Prabhupada would take a stroll to one of the nearby
parks, sometimes with a few disciples and sometimes with only
Sivananda. Sometimes while he walked along the waterfront, Prabhupada
would ask about shipbuilding and related industries, and Krsnadasa
would answer. When Prabhupada asked Krsnadasa what the population of
Hamburg was, he knew. Prabhupada began to jokingly call Krsnadasa
“Stats,” because he knew so many statistics.
One morning, while Stats was answering Prabhupada’s questions about
various cranes used in shipbuilding, Prabhupada turned to the others
and said, “You see, although I am the guru and I am taking you back to
Godhead, that doesn’t mean that I cannot learn from him.”

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SPL 7-7: Preaching in Germany, 1969

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Bhakti Vikasa Swami
wrote:
> On a recording I heard Anuttama Prabhu (GBC) state that Srila Prabhupada had
> a disciple nicknamed Stats for his habit of rattling off various facts and
> figures concerning the material world. Devotees were considering to restrain
> Stats from exhibiting his knowledge before Srila Prabhupada, but once, when
> crossing a bridge with Srila Prabhupada, Stats began something like, “This
> bridge was built in 1927; twenty tons of cement went into it.” Srila
> Prabhupada commented, “He is my disciple, but still I can learn from him.”
> What was the initiation name of Stats?
>

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