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Now take this sannyasa-mantra in your heart. Go everywhere and preach

Tamala Krishna Goswami: Tamala Krishna Goswami was the first disciple in ISKCON to receive sannyasa while he was a member of the GBC. Srila Prabhupada awarded it to him in Jaipur in 1972, and the initial concept was that Tamala Krishna Goswami would renounce his managerial responsibilities and simply travel and preach. After a brief, successful tour in Gujarat, he returned to see Srila Prabhupada in Bombay. Because his ex-wife was a devotee in Bombay, Tamala Krishna Goswami thought that he could not actually go in person to the temple, so he sent his assistant, while he himself waited at the train station. When Prabhupada heard, however, that he was waiting at the train station, he sent a devotee to pick him up and bring him to him. As soon as Tamala Krishna Goswami entered Srila Prabhupada's room and began to bow before his spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada said, "There is no difficulty in this regard." Prabhupada explained, "The temple is a neutral place where they come in any case, in any situation. So there is no wrong." Prabhupada was pleased that his sannyasi disciple was strict in his vow, but he reassured him that there was no harm in being in the same temple as his ex-wife. The sannyasa initiation had been very humbling to Tamala Krishna Goswami, and since he was no longer a leading manager, he took his seat near the rear of the room. Prabhupada had been talking to a roomful of devotees, but now he asked that everyone leave the room. He then asked Tamala Krishna Goswami to privately give his report on the recent preaching. The fact that Prabhupada had asked the others to leave was unusual and indicated his special feeling about the sannyasa preaching. Tamala Krishna Goswami reported that they had enrolled eight members in about seven days. They held a big pandal lecture program that five thousand people had attended, and the governor of Gujarat, Narasingha Narayan, had been the chief guest. Prabhupada was pleased to see photographs of these events as well as the newspaper clippings. He leaned back, satisfied, and said, "Now I can retire without any anxiety. Kirtanananda and Brahmananda and yourself are all preaching nicely. Everything will go on." "Srila Prabhupada," said Tamala Krishna Goswami, "I think I have to go now, because I want to go ahead of you to Madras, so I can be there to receive you in your next program." "Yes, go now." After Tamala Krishna Goswami offered his obeisances, Prabhupada got up from behind his desk and embraced his disciple. Resting his head on one shoulder and then on the other shoulder of his disciple, Prabhupada then released him from his embrace and said, "Now take this sannyasa-mantra in your heart. Go everywhere and preach."



Reference: Srila Prabhupada Nectar by Tamal Krishna Goswami