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You are not that body

Narsimhananda: My first sight of Srila Prabhupada was in Detroit in 1971 when he arrived at the airport. I'd come there with Hayagriva and Kirtananda from New Vrindavan and we welcomed Prabhupada as he came out of the jet way. There were about three hundred and fifty devotees welcoming him and the moment he stepped out of the door into our sight everyone began to cry. There was a wave of transcendental emotion that just went throughout the entire room and anyone who was there will remember it.

The next thing I remember was Prabhupada sitting down in the airport lounge and the first words out of his mouth were, "You are not that body." Those words pierced my heart along with everybody else's there. Indradyumna Swami and I always mention it to each other that we recall that one moment as being so extraordinary for everybody. Then Prabhupada was driven back to the temple and I spent the next three hours crying my heart out being relieved knowing my spiritual father had come back to once again to try and extract me from the material world.


Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 4 by Siddhanta Dasa