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Power of The Pure Devotee

Hamasdutta Dasa: In Germany, things were bleak. I was born in Germany, but it's an awful environment and the German people are extremely unfortunate and hard-hearted. What kept me going there was that every two weeks I received a letter from Prabhupada. My letter to Prabhupada would take one week to reach him, and his response would take one week to reach me. By the time one week went by, my battery was going down. By day eleven and twelve, I would walk a few blocks to meet the mailman to see if his letter had come. If it hadn't, I went back and went to sleep. I couldn't function. When Prabhupada's letter came, I was enlivened again. To be connected to Prabhupada, to receive his sanction, that was the whole thing. Material qualifications had nothing to do with it.

When I gave a lecture to the faculty at Harvard University I thought, "This is Krishna consciousness, Here I am giving a lecture to the faculty of Harvard University and they have no idea that I'm a high school dropout." After I finished the lecture I said, "This is the power of the pure devotee. By his mercy a person who has no qualification can be in an orbit that would not be normally possible." The material world was over. I was in complete ecstasy. My hair were standing on end and I was crying like anything. I can't even remember if I paid my obeisances. I was so stunned and bowled over by a great feeling of relief. All I had to do was follow Srila Prabhupada and everything would be taken care of.


Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 3 by Siddhanta Dasa