You go in the material world, fit into the disciplic succession
As an empowered, loving agent of Krishna, Prabhupada has the power to take us back to Godhead. I've been reading his Jaladuta and New York diaries. Krishna said to Prabhupada, "You go in the material world, fit into the disciplic succession in a very special way and bring all these souls back." Prabhupada has done a lot and by following his example his followers have to do a lot more. All we can do is follow his example. Some of us have flopped as trying to be gurus or trying to imitate him, but remembrance of him is in itself a good thing and a big thing, even to remember how Prabhupada held a cup or did this or did that. When his disciples explain what he was like and what he did, people in the future can remember those stories. For example, somebody once asked Prabhupada, "What do you feel when you chant?" He said, "I feel no fear." For anyone to hear that story and keep it with them, they can also feel no fear. It is wonderful. It is preaching. What I need is his love because I need to be forgiven. By Srila Prabhupada's love, his charity, his leniency, his empowerment, I need 'we all need' to be released. I had the thought that when I die I'll call for Krishna and they'll ask, "Whose disciple is he?" "Prabhupada's." "Oh, Prabhupada, a very famous guru. Ask Prabhupada, 'Do you know this disciple, Satsvarupa? What do you think of him? What is your recommendation for him?'" One devotee was telling me that she had a revelation that Srila Prabhupada is going to save every one of us at death, that we have nothing to fear. Maybe that's true. We just have to remember him and love him back, as he said to me, "I will love you, if you will love me." And by "every one of us", I don't mean only those who got initiated by fire yajna, but all those who want to be his disciples can be his siksa disciples. They can all be linked with him. After all, in the very beginning of Srimad Bhagavatam Srila Prabhupada dedicated it to his spiritual master and then wrote, "He lives forever by his divine instructions and the follower lives with him."
Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 4 by Siddhanta Dasa
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