SP was giving a bhakti-yoga class at the university there, the University of Buffalo
Prahladananda Swami: Rupanuga prabhu had invited him because he was giving a bhakti-yoga class at the university there, the University of Buffalo. Srila Prabhupada stayed around a week. He was staying at Rupanuga prabhu's house. He gave lectures at different universities there and also at the University of Buffalo, and he gave classes daily at the temple there. As soon as I joined the temple, I had become a pujari. Actually they made me the head pujari the day I moved into the temple, although I wasn't so sure what the names of the deities were, and I became the treasurer. I was a student at the University of Buffalo, although I was also a devotee who used to go with our full dhoti and tilak, shaven head, to school. But in the morning when I wasn't going to the university, I'd spend it with Prabhupada listening to, so I'd spend practically every morning with him.
One time I was trying to see Prabhupada's effulgence because I was practicing hatha-yoga, and Prabhupada immediately looked at me and he said, "Our method is bhakti and not mystic yoga." So then I could understand that Prabhupada was quite perceptive. He gave very nice instructions. One time he stopped when he was talking to us because sometimes it would be for a period of time, maybe a couple of hours. So every once in a while he'd stop and pick up his beads and start chanting and he said, "If you ever have time, then chant." I remember one instruction he gave me. He said that "Don't try and teach your godbrothers lessons." Prabhupada was giving a lecture at a university, and during that time one person crawled up to Prabhupada and said, "Prabhupada, how far down do you have to get in order to see God? How humble do you have to get?" more or less, and he was crawling up to Prabhupada. Later on he became initiated by Prabhupada, his name is Kushakrata prabhu. He was quite an unusual personality at that time. But by Prabhupada's mercy and by the mercy of the association of devotees, he became a Sanskrit editor.
Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Prahladananda Swami
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