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He was then 72 and I was 27

Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami: One day in 1966, I decided to become an ISKCON trustee. Srila Prabhupada introduced this. It was a special title for a sympathizer who pledged to give $200 a month. I think it was during my lunch hour from work that I went over to 26 Second Avenue with the intentions of telling Swamiji I would like to become a trustee. I met him on the street. I think he was coming from the Houston Street direction. I remember standing behind him while he put the key into the door of his apartment. Then he said, "I am an old man, I will die soon, but you are all young, so you have a long life to give to Krishna consciousness." Then he took his sweater off and I remember it exposing his round belly. I made an argument, I may not live longer than you. I could die at any moment also. He replied that that would be an accident, but the general material situation was that I would live longer. He was then 72 and I was 27.



Reference: ISKCON in the 1970s by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami