Bhakti Vikasa Swami (left) is one of the almost 5,000 disciples who were initiated by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (right), the founder-acarya of ISKCON

Srila Prabhupada chastises

Posted on October 9, 2012  
Filed under BVKS Sanga

Sometimes he would chastise for no reason. Once in Hawaii, he sent his
servant at 12:30 a.m. to wake me. The servant said, “Srila Prabhupada wants
to talk with you.” So I went there, sat down, and Prabhupada excused the
servant. We were sitting alone. I said, “Yes, Srila Prabhupada?” I thought I
was doing well. I was sleeping five hours a day, getting up, serving, and
organizing. Srila Prabhupada said, “What are you doing?” I said, “Taking
rest.” “Why?” “Because I’m tired.” “Why are you tired?” He said, “I am
sitting here translating books. I have had only one-and-a-half hours sleep,
that is sufficient. Why you cannot sit with me and translate?” I said,
“Srila Prabhupada, you’re a paramahamsa, I am a beginner.” “Why you are not
a paramahamsa?” I became frustrated and angry. What did I do? People thought
it was easy to be around His Divine Grace. I laugh at that. I scoff. That
time in Hawaii he got me in a corner and there was nothing left to do, so I
started to cry. I was defeated. Then he hugged me, told me a story about
Krsna from the Krsna book and said, “Now go take rest.” He sent me to bed
like a kid.

Guru Kripa das, Memories of Srila Prabhupada: Anecdotes of a Modern-Day
Saint p.49.


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