Srila Prabhupada In My Life - ebooks - ISKCON desire tree

www.bcswami.comlater on, it occurred to me, or I realised, why Srila Prabhupada was so empathic, becausePrabhupada knew in order to hold the institution together, his identity as the founderacaryais absolutely essential, because if his identity is not properly established andrecognized, then ISKCON would fall apart. Therefore Prabhupada was so empathic abouthis identity and later on Prabhupada even mentioned, that wherever the name ISKCONwould be used, his name as the founder-acarya must be there after that. And GBC past aresolution that even in print whenever we use the name ISKCON to identify someproject, or some centre or so forth, there must always be Prabhupada’s name as thefounder-acarya.So ISKCON in this way is non different from Srila Prabhupada and this identification isvery important. Because in order to hold the institution together, we need the head, weneed the centre point, we need the focal point, we need the nucleus. And SrilaPrabhupada is that. And we can see now, even now, ISKCON is together, becauseISKCON has retained its unified identity, because of Srila Prabhupada as the founderacaryaand the GBC as his executor of his will, his assistant, his secretaries who aretaking care of the institution on his behalf. And they’re the ultimate managing authorityof ISKCON.Srila Prabhupada, during the day, used to meet…In the morning he would used to meetthe devotees. And then Prabhupada used to take lunch. Oh in between, before Prabhupadaused to take lunch, I used to come with the replied letters and my translation. I used toread them out to Srila Prabhupada and Prabhupada used to correct me. That used to be forabout half an hour or forty five minutes. Then Prabhupada used to take an oil massage.And after the oil massage, Upendra prabhu used to give the oil massage, sometimesBhavananda prabhu used to give the oil massage. So after oil massage Prabhupada usedto take his bath and then Prabhupada used to take lunch.Those days mother Pallika, one of our godsisters, used to cook for Srila Prabhupada.Sometimes I used to watch her cook. One day I found a small cookbook that came alongwith the pressure cooker that we bought. A new pressure cooker was purchased and alongwith the pressure cooker came a small, soft bound cookbook. So I started to experimentcooking, with the cookbooks. So one day I remember I prepared something from thecookbook and I served it along with Pallika’s preparations. Pallika used to cook and Iused to serve Srila Prabhupada. And after serving Srila Prabhupada I used to take downthe plates. Then Prabhupada used to sit on his asana for some time and then Upendraprabhu used to come and take Prabhupada to his bed.Then Prabhupada used to take rest till about three o’clock. He used to take rest untilabout three o’clock. And then Srila Prabhupada used to dictate letters to Tamal KrishnaMaharaja. At three Tamal Krishna Maharaja used to come and Prabhupada used to dictatehis letters. Tamal Krishna Maharaja then used to print them out and after that, SrilaPrabhupada used to sometimes meet some people, sometimes I used to read CaitanyaCaritamrta or Srimad Bhagavatam to Srila Prabhupada.www.iskcondesiretree.com