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snake sighted in Prabhupada's bathroom.

Pushkar das: I was running up to the brahmacari room one evening, it was getting dark, and I noticed there were a lot of people at Prabhupada's end , Bhavananda and Rasaprayana and Jayapataka, Pradyumna, they were all congregated past his room near the end. So I heard very quickly that there had been a snake sighted in Prabhupada's bathroom. So they were looking for the snake and they were looking, it might be two snakes. So while all this furor was going on, Prabhupada was leaning very relaxedly, nonchalantly.
 
They were all with flashlights looking here and there in the different pipes outside of Prabhupada's room, outside the bathroom. Prabhupada was leaning very nonchalantly and he said, "So many men for one snake?" in this deep, grave voice with a humorous inflection to it. Only Prabhupada could get away with saying something that would sound very grave, very humorous and superintelligent and totally time and place. It had everything all built into one statement. He just said, "So many men for one snake?" Pradyumna was very worried about where he would sleep, on a shelf, he was still worried the snake hadn't been found.
 
So in the morning I'd forgotten about the snake incident, and I was waiting outside Prabhupada's room; and the door opens up and a couple of people with Prabhupada, he has his cane, and the first thing he says is, "Anyone was bit by the snake?" also with that kind of humor and biting kind of wit. Then he walked to the steps and he stopped again and he said, "Pradyumna has fled?" because he knew Pradyumna was particularly worried about the snake. The whole idea was funny, "Pradyumna has fled."
 
And in the class, it was one of Kunti's prayers. Maybe it was manye tvam kalam, that Krishna is time. Prabhupada gave the example, he said "So we think we are very safe in our four-story marble building, but the snake is there and the snake is death." It's an example of how Prabhupada would utilize everything for his preaching. "The snake is death. We think we are very safe."


Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Pushkara Dasa