Prabhupada-a solid pillar of strength

Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami: Mukunda was also present with Prabhupada in his room along with a small group of devotees when an earthquake took place. The telephone poles and wires began moving outside the window. The building trembled. No one said anything until Prabhupada said, "What is this?" A devotee replied, 'It's an earthquake, Swamiji.' Prabhupada said, "Oh." Then the earthquake suddenly stopped. Everyone present was very intent on Prabhupada's reaction. He said, "We can just sit down and chant Hare Krishna." He recounted the bombing of Calcutta during the war. "I was in the bomb shelter, the bombs were falling, and I was thinking, as I was chanting Hare Krishna that if I had to die now, it would be wonderful to die while chanting Hare Krishna." 

Mukunda and the other devotees felt secure being in Prabhupada's presence, even during the earthquake. They thought that no matter what catastrophe might happen, they could sit at ease with him and chant Hare Krishna and be happy.