You must serve her...
Srutakirti Dasa: While visiting Vrindavana before the Krishna-Balaram Mandir was built, Srila Prabhupada used to sometimes stay in his original rooms at the Radha-Damodara temple. On one visit, Yamuna-devi dasi asked if she could cook for him and Srila Prabhupada agreed. While Yamuna was cooking capatis in one half of the kitchen and Srila Prabhupada was eating prasadam at the far end of the same room, Prabhupada's servant, Srutakirti, entered the room to watch. "So, you have taken prasadam?" Srila Prabhupada asked. "No," Srutakirti replied. "I just bathed." "Yamuna, fix him a plate of prasadam," said Srila Prabhupada. "No," Srutakirti protested, "that's all right. I'll wait until you're finished, Srila Prabhupada." "No," said Prabhupada. "Sit down and take prasadam." So Srutakirti sat down and received a plate from Yamuna.
Under Prabhupada's direction, she continued making capatis and serving both Prabhupada and his servant. "So today she has fixed your lunch," said Prabhupada. "Now tomorrow you cook for her. This is the Vedic custom. Today she has done some service for you; now tomorrow you must serve her." "Yes, Prabhupada," said Srutakirti.
Looking through the latticework into the courtyard of Rupa Gosvami's samadhi, Prabhupada began to reminisce. He said that often he would sit here and take prasadam and look at the samadhi and bhajana kutir of Rupa Gosvami. He said he was hoping Rupa Gosvami would give him facility to spread the Krishna consciousness movement. During the same period, a startling incident took place with a monkey. Srila Prabhupada was lecturing to a group of people in his small room. One man had brought a bunch of bananas and placed them at Prabhupada's feet. All of a sudden, a monkey ran into the room and grabbed for the bananas. Prabhupada also grabbed for the bananas and got most of them, while the monkey got one or two and ran out the other door. The whole thing had happened very quickly, and Prabhupada was also quick to use the incident for teaching Krishna consciousness. "Just see how expert the monkey is," Prabhupada explained. He said that every species of life has their expertise to get some food.
Reference: Srila Prabhupada Nectar by Srutakirti Dasa
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