Please take these souls back.
Satsvarupa: Someone gave me a DVD about Ram das's guru. On it they showed a picture of his guruji and we heard his disciples talking about how his guru made you feel love for other people. But there was no mention of love of God. Prabhupada was a great scholar of the Vedic literature and he made you feel love of God with such conviction, argument and philosophy. His love and his giving this love to us was such a gigantic thing. I don't mean to criticize Ram das' guru for only having the apparent quality of love for other people. But Prabhupada's love for us had the potency to bring us back to Godhead. His love was astounding. To me Prabhupada's most meaningful quality was his love. He didn't always show it because he was the general on the battlefield and he didn't have time. But we all needed love even though some of us, like Tamal Krishna Maharaj, were ready to take the battle orders and fight. On the back of one of the Memories books I read a quote from one of Prabhupada's lectures. He said, "So if you will just follow these four regulative principles and chant sixteen rounds then you will go back to home, back to Godhead. I guarantee it." Why does Prabhupada say that? On behalf of his Guru Maharaj. Out of love. He has love for the cow, love for the poor living entities, but even more love for his disciples. I think he wants us to come up to grade so that he can present us to Krishna, "Please take these souls back." I don't know how much love I can claim I saw, but I have faith that I did see it and that that's what he's offering us. That's the value in remembering him. These Memories videos and books and any remembering programs are so important When Sanatana Goswami was in jail, Rupa Goswami sent him a cryptic note saying, "Where has the Mathura of Krishna gone? Where has the Ayodhya of Raghupati gone? By reflection, make the mind steady, thinking, 'This universe is not eternal.'" It means that although the dhams, like Vrindavan Dham, will always be there, on earth they are deteriorating. Similarly, memories of Prabhupada's presence and qualities can also deteriorate. We have to remember him and speak about his qualities so that we don't forget what he is in our lives.
Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 4 by Siddhanta Dasa
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