I will come and show you
Yasodanandan das : This occurred in August of 1976, the installation of the Deities of Radha Madana-Mohana. Srila Prabhupada was very careful to introduce our movement in a very proper manner according to time, place and circumstances. Although Srila Prabhupada had explained several times that we did not need elaborate ritualistic ceremonies, he was very conscious of the fact that if you don't do some of these things in places like South India, the local people will not accept as bona fide. So we discussed with Prabhupada and made an arrangement to get 12 South Indian Ramanuja Vaishnava brahmanas under the leadership of Sampath Kumar Bhattacharya who were very versed in these ritualistic ceremonies of how to open a Vaishnava temple. When Srila Prabhupada came from the airport, they gave him a very grand reception and they actually performed acharya puja. There is even a recorded lecture where Srila Prabhupada discussed how in this age there are very few brahmanas left but he was pleased that in South India, he considered that there were still some bona fide brahmanas. They set up a very elaborate pandal where we had all different kinds of authorized Vedic Vaishnava ceremonies. And Mahamsa Swami and Achyutananda Swami had invited the Minister of the State of Andhra Pradesh named Pulla Reddy, who was a very wealthy businessman who had arranged to donate the land and involve all kinds of people in building the temple. We had been collecting for the temple, Achyutananda Swami and myself, by preaching in South India. Prabhupada had a very interesting conversation in his room with some of these brahmanas. They had actually a Sanskrit conversation where they were quoting back and forth different quotes from Bhagavad-gita, from sastra. So Prabhupada turned to this brahmana, who was a Nrsingha worshiper, a Vaishnava Ramanuja brahmana, and he requested them to arrange to take Srila Prabhupada to all the major temples of South India. "I want to go there and re-establish varnasrama dharma in South India." So they were discussing how they were going to make arrangements to go to all these major temples like Tirupati, Sri Rangam, Madurai, Rameshwaram, Udupi. And Srila Prabhupada was preaching to them how it was the responsibility of these educated scholarly brahmanas, very cultured people, to take this up and preach to the local people. And Prabhupada said, "I will come and show you." But overall Prabhupada was very pleased with the opening of the temple, and on the Vyasa Puja Day there was a grand ceremony. The Minister of the State of Andhra Pradesh made a very nice speech and all the devotees made very nice speeches for Srila Prabhupada's Vyasa Puja. So that was a pretty blissful experience to have these power-packed days with all the ceremonies and kirtans and everything else.
Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Yasodanandana Dasa
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