But it was real. It was real.
Tripurari Swami: Parading down Fifth Avenue with Lord Jagannatha was the fulfillment of really a life-long ambition. I was sitting with Prabhupada once in Mayapur and he turned to me and he said, "When I was a young boy, I wanted to perform Rathayatra. And so my father got me a Rathayatra cart." And Prabhupada was looking at me like he was about a 6- or 8-year-old boy and he said, "Everybody thought it was just a play Rathayatra." Then he touched me like this with his hand and he said, "But it was real. It was real." He said, "I used to go to sleep in my bed with the rath cart next to me. In the night, I would wake up and reach out to make sure that it was there." He said, "In this way, from my childhood I was performing Rathayatra in a small way, and now I'm doing it in a big way all over the world."
His ambition as a young boy was to take the train from Calcutta to Puri so that he could go to the Rathayatra in Jagannatha Puri. What an ambition for a child? such a pure ambition on his part that Lord Jagannatha fulfilled it in such a grand style.
His ambition as a young boy was to take the train from Calcutta to Puri so that he could go to the Rathayatra in Jagannatha Puri. What an ambition for a child? such a pure ambition on his part that Lord Jagannatha fulfilled it in such a grand style.
Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Tripurari Swami
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