Prabhupada said when he thought of devotees like me, his heart swelled with pride.
Tulsi das : Jayatirtha sent me to South Africa in 1977. What a gift. Hadn't a clue what South Africa was. Anyhow, I went there in January. I just had been married. My son was born that year, and we had a farm with maybe 15 devotees. Prabhupada had been to South Africa with Pusta Krishna and they had done all these really marvelous festivals all over the country, and the place was high potential.
So we took an old barn or work shed and organized the devotees, and I went out on sankirtan and we raised all kinds of money and built a temple and got big Gaura-Nitai Deities at Mayapur that year. So it was only six months, we had this enormous festival where Partha Sarathi - what a brilliant preacher, Partha Sarathi. He would preach all over the Indian community, he organized all the - we had 20,000 people come out for this festival.
And Ranjit, he was my right-hand man and like my scribe. He would write letters. So he and I, we wrote Prabhupada and sent pictures of the opening and everything for Janmastami. When Prabhupada was that was near the end. And when Prabhupada was in bed, they read the letter to him and showed him the pictures. And Prabhupada said when he thought of devotees like me, his heart swelled with pride.
Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Tulasi Dasa
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