He is alert. Conscious 24 hours a day.

Gargamuni Dasa: There is a nice story to that, Gurukripa tells. This is in Hawaii, and Gurukripa's talking to Prabhupada. And then he sees Prabhupada closes his eyes, and he thinks, "Oh, he is falling asleep." So Gurukripa very quietly gets up, and tippy toes out the door. He is going to the door, he opens the door, and Prabhupada says, "Where are you going?" He wasn't sleeping. He was in samadhi. He is thinking of Krishna. He is alert. The pure devotee is conscious of Krishna twenty-four hours a day.

I looked up that word. It's "twenty-four hours a day." Prabhupada said that hundreds of times. A pure devotee is conscious of Krishna. How do you become conscious of Krishna while you are sleeping? Huh? "And one should not become a guru until he is Krishna conscious twenty-four hours a day." That he has said. So who is conscious of Krishna twenty-four hours a day? Who doesn't sleep? This is the power of Srila Prabhupada, such transcendental person.

We have no idea of his powers because we see him as a human. We don't see him as superhuman. He wrote me that letter. It's a famous letter. "Never consider the spiritual master as an ordinary human being, but he is superhuman." Now, what does that mean? We can find it in Prabhupada's books, in his letters, and in his conversations.