Srila Prabhupada initates the Ex-butcher
Bhargava : Before he was a devotee, Maharati had been a butcher and a boxer. Maharati didn't speak English. When he was initiated in the temple in Paris, he went to take his beads from Prabhupada, but Prabhupada pulled the beads back and said, "So, you will not kill any more animals?" Somebody translated. Maharati was a big guy, and Prabhupada, sitting on the vyasasana, was tiny. But Maharati was shaking in his dhoti. When he understood what Prabhupada had said, he gasped. Prabhupada gave him his beads and said, "Your name is Maharati, one who can fight with many thousands of warriors." Prabhupada could shake people up, but he did it with love. For him the basis of Krishna consciousness was love. We rationalize our illusions and are blind to our imperfections. We tend to think that what we do is perfect. But the spiritual master sees through our illusion.
Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 2 by Siddhanta Dasa
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