fired!

by Bhakti Vikasa Swami on July 26, 2010

As for Srila Prabhupada’s own unfamiliarity with Western culture, it was a
feature that simply made him more dear to us. If he did not understand the
use of a word in the English or American language, it was another occasion
to love him. One time a devotee told Prabhupada that he might get fired from
his job. Prabhupada was astonished and said, “Fired? They would fire on
you?” Prabhupada thought the devotee would be fired with a gun. The devotee
replied, “Oh no, Prabhupada! Fired just means they would release me from the
job.” We would all laugh together about his not knowing these words. We did
not expect him to know such things, but neither did we think of him as a
“foreigner.” Prabhupada knew the transcendental world, the real home. To be
unaware of the material world was just another sign of his detachment.

From Prabhupada Meditations by SDG

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