SP tells to stay in his rooms

Vaikunthanath das: Saradiya and I were married in May of 1969, and shortly thereafter I returned to New York, because I was studying book binding at the time, to help set up the ISKCON Press; and I was very stunned when I was told that Prabhupada wanted us to stay in his quarters. There was an apartment behind 26 2nd Avenue, those were considered the most holy places by all of us because that was where Prabhupada had his rooms; and although Prabhupada was not there in New York at the time, those were Prabhupada's rooms.

And yet Prabhupada instructed that me and Saradiya, having just recently been married and needing a place to stay, should stay in his rooms; and that deeply impressed me that he was willing to suggest that. And indeed we did stay there. We stayed there for probably a month or two in the summer of 1969.