Preaching Boldly With Faith And Prabhupada's Dhoti
Indradyumna Swami: We spent a couple of days in London and once someone said to Bhagavan and me, "Prabhupada wants to see you." We knocked on the door, Nanda Kumar answered and invited us in. Prabhupada was sitting behind a low desk. We paid our obeisances, and Prabhupada preached about the importance of the sankirtan movement. He appreciated that we were going to help the sankirtan movement in Paris. He looked at me and said, "My instruction to you is to preach boldly and have faith in the holy names. Krishna will give you all facility." Again his instruction went into my heart and I meditate on it constantly. "Preach boldly and have faith in the holy names." Then Prabhupada said, "I'll give you something to encourage you," and he pulled out some of his clothes from a drawer. He handed something to Bhagavan Das and he handed me one of his dhotis. I took that dhoti to my heart and I said, "Wow, now I have something that I can treasure. I have the instructions from Srila Prabhupada to preach boldly and have faith in the holy names and I have his own dhoti." Although I was a grihastha, I used to wear that dhoti like a chaddar. Once a sannyasi came to Europe and said to me, "You're a householder, you can't wear saffron." I said, "Maharaj, yes I can. This is Prabhupada's dhoti and no one's going to make me take this dhoti off." He said, "Oh, it's Prabhupada's dhoti, eh?" I said, "Yes." And I wore that dhoti until it wore out.
Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 3 by Siddhanta Dasa
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