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walking cane and told Biharilal to put the cash box
down and get out. He did.
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The temporary buildings were soon finished, and
several devotees including Ananda Prabhu--the cook,
Sharma--the engineer, and I moved in.
When a truckload of steel rebar for the foundation
arrived. The driver demanded to be paid for the
steel before unloading it. The shipment was prepaid,
and I wasn’t going to pay again. The driver threatened
to take the steel to Mathura and dump it there. I
jumped on the truck, opened the hood, and threatened
to pull out the distributor cables if he didn’t call
his company and confirm that the order was prepaid.
He did and the matter was settled.
Workers dug the foundation of the Krishna
Balaram Temple by hand with laborers carrying the
dirt out in metal pans on their heads. Swamiji wanted
to pour the first concrete when he came to give a series
of Nectar of Devotion lectures at Radha Damodar
temple, which devotees from around the world
would attend.
Nectar of Devotion is Bhaktivedanta Swami's
rendition of Rupa Goswami's Bhakti-rasamrita-sindhu,
which is the introductory volume to Ujjval Nilamani. It
contains elaborate descriptions of devotional principles,
their benefits, and stages of progress on the devotional
path. Devotees looked forward to these lec-
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