by Admin | Aug 21, 2017 | Memories of Srila Prabhupada
Giriraj Swami : One day in Surat when Srila Prabhupada was taking his massage, I asked, “How can we deal with envy?” I knew that I was envious, and I knew that envy was bad. Before I asked the question, I had been considering the subject, and I had come to...
by Admin | Aug 21, 2017 | Memories of Srila Prabhupada
Giriraj Swami : During a morning walk at Cheviot Hills in Los Angeles, I asked, “We preach that Krishna is the origin of everything, but sometimes people ask, ‘What is the origin of Krishna?'” Srila Prabhupada replied, “You tell them that as...
by Admin | Aug 21, 2017 | Memories of Srila Prabhupada
Giriraj Swami: Sometimes Srila Prabhupada would point to the seagulls or small birds that would walk just by the border of the ocean and he would say, “The huge ocean with such huge waves, at any moment the waves could drown the little birds. But still they dare...
by Admin | Aug 21, 2017 | Memories of Srila Prabhupada
Giriraj Swami : Mr. Sethi of Bombay was an older Life Member and great sankirtan devotee. He had a construction company, and when we built additional floors on the existing buildings at the back of Hare Krishna Land, Mr. Sethi did the job. When the first ashram was...
by Admin | Aug 21, 2017 | Memories of Srila Prabhupada
When we would come back from the harinam sankirtan in the mornings, many of the people of Surat would be following the harinam party. But although Prabhupada wasn’t with us physically on the harinam sankirtan, he was in the back of everyone’s mind. He was...
by Admin | Aug 21, 2017 | Memories of Srila Prabhupada
Giriraj Swami: Sometimes gentlemen would come to meet Srila Prabhupada and discuss with him. Once I was struck when Srila Prabhupada told one gentleman that the government of India should have a Department of Bhagavad-gita, that Bhagavad-gita is the greatest asset of...
by Admin | Aug 21, 2017 | Memories of Srila Prabhupada
Giriraj Swami : Many times he would paraphrase the Srimad-Bhagavatam or Bhagavad-gita in such a natural way that you would think he was speaking his own thoughts. Once there were construction workers staying on Hare Krishna Land. In the distance Prabhupada heard a...
by Admin | Aug 21, 2017 | Memories of Srila Prabhupada
Giriraj Swami : A devotee named Dravida, who later became Pancha Dravida Swami, approached Srila Prabhupada on the veranda in Calcutta. He said “In the early days, all the devotees had a personal relationship with you, but now ISKCON has become so big.”...
by Admin | Aug 21, 2017 | Memories of Srila Prabhupada
Giriraj Swami: The main quality of Srila Prabhupada that strikes me is his compassion. His compassion was manifest in his intense desire to make everyone Krishna conscious. And his compassion was manifest in everything he did. Once Srila Prabhupada was giving a public...
by Admin | Aug 21, 2017 | Memories of Srila Prabhupada
Giriraj Swami : One night in the middle of the night when I was sleeping on the roof of the gurukula building, one of Prabhupada’s assistants came and woke me up. And immediately so many thoughts rushed through my mind: Is Prabhupada leaving? Is something wrong?...
