SP's friendly dealings with Narayan Maharaj.

Srila Swami Maharaja and I were godbrothers in regards to sannyasa. I had taken sannyasa before him, in 1954, and he took sannyasa in 1959. However, I always considered him my superior and behaved towards him as my siksha-guru. Still, Swamiji never treated me like a disciple, rather always as a bosom friend. He made me sit on the same seat with him while we were chanting, remembering, doing kirtana, and sometimes making chapatis together. He rolled the chapatis and I put them on the fire and then we would offer them. We would sit on the same bed together.

Once, when I came to visit him, I gave him my chadara because he had no chadara to put on his bed. Only one torn quilt was there. The walls were crumbling apart but he was too absorbed in his bhajana and seva to care for that. He performed intense tapasya and sadhana in that kutira, in that most sacred tirtha. I feel fortunate to have received his association at the Radha-Damodara Temple.