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For the blue boy at the Manor!

Malati dasi : After the Deities were installed, Prabhupada instructed me that "Krishna has come. Now you have to look after Him." Still there was no money at the Manor. So myself and another devotee, Gangamayi, became the personal collectors of Sri Sri Radha Gokulananda, and we'd go out every afternoon until eleven o'clock at night and collect for Them. You know where we went? We went to the pubs. We had these cans and we'd just say…because it was so raucous in the pubs, you couldn't really talk… we're collecting for charity. Sometimes we'd say "for the blue boy at the Manor." So as a purification and an atonement and to remember why we were doing what we were doing, we would wake up the Deities every morning and perform mangal arati. I remember one night we got in really late and the temple was locked. It was actually locked on purpose because some people were objecting that we were getting this money and it was going directly to the Deity fund. Prabhupada told us…he said there had to be a bank account for the Deities and that money would only be used for Their maintenance and care. So I knew that it really wasn't an accident the doors were all locked. So Prabhupada saved us. There was one little window by the vyasasan, a small one, that we managed to squeeze through and get in.


Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada – Remembrances by Yadubara Dasa