Massaging the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada

Udayananda das : I had always had this desire to touch the lotus feet of the pure devotee, and this was back to the time when I was getting brahmana initiated in 1974 and I asked Srila Prabhupada could I touch his feet and Prabhupada said, "No, that is not necessary." So here I am in Srila Prabhupada's room, and I look over and I see Trivikrama Swami and he's massaging Prabhupada's feet. And I'm thinking, "Why is he getting all this mercy?" But then I'm thinking, "Oh, I don't even deserve to be in this room." And then all of a sudden Maharaj yawned, and I said, "Oh, Krishna." So I humbly came over to Maharaj and said, "Would it be OK if I took over and massaged Srila Prabhupada's feet?" And he said, "OK." I thought, "Oh, my God, I don't believe this is really going to happen!"

So then Maharaj took me over and he showed me. So I was so gentle and I was massaging the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada, and I got to massage him for two-and-a-half hours. Then at one point Prabhupada looked up and said, "Who is massaging my feet?" Tamal Krishna Maharaj said, "Oh, that's Udayananda das." And Prabhupada said, "Oh." And then there was this smile on Prabhupada's face as if after all these years he was fulfilling my desire. Then by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada, he allowed me to massage his feet every day for the next three weeks. But I was thinking that I was the most fortunate soul in the whole universe at that time.