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.

