I have come to make all the Hippies into Happies
Narada Muni Dasa: I was helping to cook, and then I went down to the Family Dog Auditorium, where Srila Prabhupada was going to come. There were so many people who participated actually that we filled the Family Dog Auditorium and simultaneously the beach was also filled with people, and we were distributing prasadam at both places, big kirtans were going on at both places. I was in the Family Dog when Srila Prabhupada arrived, and it was just so wonderful. Srila Prabhupada was such a swan amongst men, and he floated into the Family Dog Auditorium. There were literally thousands and thousands of hippies present, and they were all in their full regalia because this was a big event for them. So just ordinarily, on that day, people's dress was interesting enough. But for this Rathayatra Festival, they really decked themselves out. Many dressed as Radha and Krishna and similar costumes like that. So Srila Prabhupada came amongst this. He walked onto the stage, and he looked out amongst the throngs of hippies and he smiled. Then he said, "I have come to make all the hippies into happies." That evoked a tremendous tumult of transcendental roaring from all the devotees that were present and everyone got swept away in this wave, this tidal wave of ecstasy that was coming from Srila Prabhupada's heart, and danced for hours and hours and hours. Vishnujana would be chanting and swooning, and then he would cry out, "Chant and dance, and when you're tired take prasadam! And then come and chant and dance some more!" And that's literally what went on for hours and hours and hours.
Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Narada Muni Dasa
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