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Prabhupada is teaching us all by example

Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami: We heard that Tamal Krishna Maharaja told Srila Prabhupada that all the devotees were praying for his recovery. Srila Prabhupada replied, "Don't pray for me. I have to go". Then he asked TKG if there were any further questions that had to be asked. The answer was No, you've answered them all. Rupanuga was saying that it's like an ambassador in a foreign country: he may have many affairs, but finally he's called back.

Jayadvaita said Srila Prabhupada has taught us everything and now he is teaching us how to die. We all have to leave our bodies one day. He is acarya in this also for the Vaisnava, death is glorious. It is a great and devastating difficulty. Srila Prabhupada's body is stretched out on what seems a rack of suffering, yet he remains aloof, noble, grave and makes us all like that as we watch him. We think, Srila Prabhupada may soon disappear. Then we'll have to carry on by ourselves. But we forget that each of us will eventually have to go through what he is going through now. He is teaching us all by example how to do it while remaining absorbed in hearing the holy name.



Reference: ISKCON in the 1970s by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami