Engage Everything For Krishna
Tosan Krishna Dasa: We couldn't afford to have flowers in the temple back then and we used a pay phone because the temple didn't have a phone. One day I found a beautiful piece of luxurious velvet with some trim on it in an abandoned, rustic, Catholic Church, and I brought it for Prabhupada. Govinda Dasi saw it and she said to Prabhupada, "Tosan Krishna wants to know if you want this." At the time Prabhupada was directing devotees to help him pack, saying, "Put this thing away, put this here, now roll this, put this there." Prabhupada was being very exacting. When Govinda Dasi asked him that question, Srila Prabhupada, who had been so sweet, suddenly said, "I want nothing!" and the room shook as if Lord Nrisimhadeva had entered. After that I didn't know what was going to happen to that piece of cloth but two months later I visited Srila Prabhupada in Los Angeles and Srila Prabhupada was using it as a backdrop for his Deities. I thought, "He wants nothing, but he'll engage things for his Deities."
Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 3 by Siddhanta Dasa
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