Teaching to drink milk
Balabhadra : In San Francisco in 1971 the temple was on Valencia Street. There weren't nice accommodations for Srila Prabhupada in the temple, so Prabhupada stayed in a house in Berkeley with one of the friends of the temple. In the evening, all of the devotees would go to that house for Prabhupada's darshan.
One night I was sitting by Srila Prabhupada's desk when he was using a spoon to sip milk from a nice goblet. Prabhupada explained that milk should be taken sipping hot. If it's cooler than that, it simply goes to urine. But if you take it sipping hot, it nourishes the finer brain tissues. A few minutes later, he put his spoon down. I looked in the goblet, and it was still half full.
The temperature had cooled down, and Prabhupada stopped drinking. Prabhupada didn't say anything for a minute but gazed toward the back of the room. I followed his gaze, and there was Jayananda sound asleep. Srila Prabhupada and Jayananda had a special relationship. There was so much love between them. Prabhupada knew that Jayananda worked hard and didn't say anything.
Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 2 by Siddhanta Dasa
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