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What was I supposed to do?

Kaushalya : We were in New Delhi during the Bangladesh war. Every night Prabhupada wanted to work, talk to us, have meetings and darshan with different people, but we had to keep the lights off due to mandatory black outs. Prabhupada was unhappy about that and I decided to black out the windows. I put black cloth over the windows and that night surprised him by flipping on the lights. He said, "Oh, Kaushalya, you have blacked out the windows. That is first-class intelligence. First-class intelligence is you do what needs to be done without anyone telling you to. Second class intelligence is I say to you, 'Do this and that,' and you do it. Third-class intelligence is I say, 'Go do this or that,' you run out the door and then come back and say, 'What was I supposed to do?'"



Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 1 by Siddhanta Dasa