Whatever prasadam you take, you finish it

Srutakirti : I was massaging him at Bhaktivedanta Manor. We would always use mustard oil for his body and sandalwood oil for his head, unless he was ill. If he was ill there was no cold oil applied to his head. Sometimes during massages he would say, "Put the lid back on the mustard oil." This particular day we were alone in the room, and I was sitting behind him, rubbing his head with sandalwood oil. Then I massaged his back with the mustard oil that was in the bottle that I didn't put the lid on. I got up and proceeded to move around to his side, when I knocked the small bottle of mustard oil over onto the floor. Immediately he turned around and said, "Why didn't you have the lid on the mustard oil? You are so foolish. You will be intelligent when you are eighty." Then he said, "Get a cup." I ran into the next room and got a cup. Both Prabhupada and I got the mustard oil on our hands and scraped it into the cup. He said, "Now use that oil on my body." This was another one of his qualities. Srila Prabhupada never ever wasted anything. Whatever you take, you use. Whatever prasadam you take, you finish it. That was always his example. Anyway, I did joke with Srila Prabhupada on occasion, but whatever I said to him I would think about once, twice, three, four times before I'd say it. A few minutes went by. I was massaging Prabhupada's arm. He was very quiet, and I was very quiet. Finally I said, "Srila Prabhupada, thank you so much. I thought it would take a lot longer than that to become intelligent." He cracked up, laughing. He found it very amusing. Everything was so funny.