Marry or Remain brahmachari
Trivikram Swami: Sometime in 1969 I asked Srila Prabhupada whether he thought I should remain a brahmachari or get married. Prabhupada said, "It doesn't matter. You can be Krishna conscious in any ashram. The main thing is to be Krishna conscious." I accepted that.
One day after that Prabhupada was lecturing about the time he took sannyas and how he was thinking, "How can I leave my wife and children? But somehow my spiritual master came to me in a dream and my God-brother was pushing me and so I took sannyas. Now I have so many children and without the botheration of a wife."
The next day when I was massaging him I said, "Srila Prabhupada, yesterday in your lecture you said that a wife was a botheration." Prabhupada looked at me, smiled, and said, "I said that?" He was always non-committal with me until he asked me to take sannyas a couple of years later. He saw I was a little older, but he wouldn't have objected if I wanted to remain a brahmachari or get married or take sannyas. It was like that.
One day after that Prabhupada was lecturing about the time he took sannyas and how he was thinking, "How can I leave my wife and children? But somehow my spiritual master came to me in a dream and my God-brother was pushing me and so I took sannyas. Now I have so many children and without the botheration of a wife."
The next day when I was massaging him I said, "Srila Prabhupada, yesterday in your lecture you said that a wife was a botheration." Prabhupada looked at me, smiled, and said, "I said that?" He was always non-committal with me until he asked me to take sannyas a couple of years later. He saw I was a little older, but he wouldn't have objected if I wanted to remain a brahmachari or get married or take sannyas. It was like that.
Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 2 by Siddhanta Dasa
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