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Srila Praphupada's gatekeeper

Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami: After about two weeks in Mayapur, we shifted to Calcutta. My job was to stand as a kind of friendly wall just outside Prabhupada's room and not let intruders in. It was the usual impossible task. Srila Prabhupada's intimate disciples, such as Tamal Krishna Goswami, would barge past me, and if I got too strong and stopped a few, especially some of the Indians, then Prabhupada objected to my blockade. When I became sick, I simply lay flat on the floor right outside his room. There was nowhere else to go. Prabhupada sometimes came out of his room and saw me lying there helplessly. He advised me to get a shot for cholera.



Reference: ISKCON in the 1970s by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami