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Danavir Goswami: In San Francisco when Bhakta das was president up there, he organized a special worship program for Prabhupada to raise funds. It was auctioned off, these different services like bathing his feet with milk or water or honey. Temple presidents could bid and whoever bid the most got to do that service for Prabhupada, and at the end all the money would be given to Prabhupada as a donation. So at that time, I had a little bit of money from an inheritance, small inheritance, and one especially I wanted to win was bathing his feet with honey because I thought that that one would take longer so I would be able to get more time serving Prabhupada touching his feet than the other substances. 
 
So I won that one; and while I was pouring the honey over Prabhupada's feet, I'm trying to stretch it out as long as possible and Prabhupada said, "Hurry up." So I had to go faster. Prabhupada wasn't enjoying being worshiped as we might think that we would enjoy being worshiped and we'd like to drag it out as long as possible, but he was doing it as a service.


Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Danavir Swami