Just keep hearing
Jadurani : Prabhupada said, "Just keep hearing. Your material qualification or disqualification doesn't matter. Just keep hearing submissively, and everything will come. You will fully realize God." We had that faith tremendously. For example, Mayavadis say, "When you become self-realized, you become God and you become silent just like a water jug. When you're filling a water jug, it goes gurgle, gurgle, gurgle, but when it's full, it's silent." Prabhupada said, "The Mayavadis give this kind of argument, but an analogy must have many similar points. This analogy has no similar points. Is the living entity like a water jug? Can I be compared to a water jug? And this analogy contradicts the scriptures. In the scriptures it says that, 'Now that we've passed through all the lower species and come to the human form of life, it's time to talk about human subjects.'" A Mayavadi also says, "I'm God." Prabhupada would counter, "Oh, you are God? How have you become a dog?" The Mayavadi responds, "I'm God, but I've forgotten." Prabhupada, "Okay, you may be God, but you're not that God who doesn't forget." In this way he would play both sides. Purusottama cleaned in Prabhupada's quarters, and I painted there. Achyutananda worked in the kitchen. After class and breakfast, Prabhupada would come into the room where we were and say, "What did I say in class?" I would say, "God is everything, but everything is not God. Or is it that everything is God but God is not . . ." Then Prabhupada would continue teaching us. He would say, "The greatest illusion is to think that 'I'm God,' and LSD is the greatest illusion because it puts you in that foolish frame of mind." We got to hear his lectures and his personal discussions, and we also heard from all the devotees. One little instruction he gave me was "Don't use washing machines. They're not nice." In those days Prabhupada washed his laundry in his bathtub, and the devotees who lived downstairs also washed their clothes this way. So besides everything else, we received little instructions here and there.
Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 1 by Siddhanta Dasa
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