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Krishna Car

Malati: I was honored and privileged to be Srila Prabhupada's driver. We had one donated car, and, coming from our poverty-stricken hippie background, you can imagine what kind of a donation that was. It was a 1954 Ford, and for some reason the seats wouldn't go up straight. You leaned back holding on to the wheel, and at anytime the trunk and the hood could fly up. We proudly stenciled "Hare Krishna" on each door. This was our Krishna car, and this was what Srila Prabhupada was transported in. 
 
Once while I was driving I said, "Srila Prabhupada, do you know how to drive?" He said, "No." But he told me he owned two cars. I thought it was mystical that he had these cars but he didn't drive. When I got to India I found out that generally a car owner hires a driver. So, Srila Prabhupada had a driver for his cars. But in those days we thought that Swamiji didn't do things like we do them. Maybe he sat down in his car and it went where he wanted. I would take Prabhupada on an elevated roadway. He called it "the road in the sky." I sensed that he liked to go fast on that road, and whenever I took him anywhere I would somehow manage to get on that road even if it was totally out of the way. We were so eager to do anything we could to please Srila Prabhupada. Whether someone was a devotee or a non-devotee, everyone who contacted Srila Prabhupada wanted to offer him something.


Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 2 by Siddhanta Dasa