Don't become too familiar with your guru.
Jananivas das: Prabhupada sometimes used to go for a morning walk there on the Ganges. It used to take about almost 20 minutes to walk there. At that time, it was way, way over the other side. One time actually they all took bath there. They were all sannyasis, or at least brahmacaris and sannyasis, and Prabhupada said, "You can take a bath if you like." They said, "But Prabhupada, we didn't bring any gamchhas." "It is OK, no one is around. You can go in your kaupina." So everybody jumped in the Ganga, and Prabhupada went in also. He had a gamchha, his servant brought him a gamchha, and he also went in. Then they started fighting, splashing and everything like that, and Prabhupada said that "This is OK." He said, "Lord Chaitanya, He was also doing this." Then someone started to splash Prabhupada, Madhudvisa Maharaj I believe mildly in a playful way, but he was giving little splashes with his hand. But Prabhupada said, "Don't become too familiar with your guru." He reprimanded him and Guru Kripa. They were pouring water on Prabhupada's head with their hands, chanting cintamani-prakara-sadmasu, chanting Cintamani prayers.
Another time he said, "If you build a road from our ashram to the Ganga, a nice road, I will come every morning for a walk here." Another time he said, "Be careful because the Ganga could come and take away all of our property."
For several years the Ganga was constantly changing course. Then the course was diverted right over to the property. But then the government took action, they made some proper embankments there with bricks. But it came very, very close, right up to the road. But now it's gone back to a steady course, which is a very good symptom because in the Navadvipa-dhama Mahatmya it's predicted that for several hundred years, about 400 years, the Ganga will constantly do this actually, flood the whole area.
And then after 400 years, Bhaktivinode Thakur mentions, "Then she will go back to a steady course again." Then he said, "Many, many bathing ghats will be built on the Ganga, and many, many temples will be built, and many household dwellings will come up. And there will be, of course, the Adbhuta Mandir, a very astonishing temple will rise from which service to Lord Chaitanya will spread all over the world."
So now we're seeing this. Now the Ganga is more or less settled. There are permanent ghats being made ISKCON has made one, Madhava Maharaj has made a permanent ghat. And there's hundreds and hundreds of dwelling places now all over the place. We have our grihastha-para. Then just outside the master plan of our project there's so many houses. And the community members also of the Chaitanya Math and Yoga Pith Gaudiya Math, they are also building little houses. There's hundreds of little houses. It's all protected by Nityananda Prabhu. So these are good signs.
Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Jananivasa Dasa
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