Prabhupada is always certain
Kirtananda das: Hayagriva first ran into Prabhupada on the street on Bowery, and Prabhupada invited him to come and attend his class that he was holding at 26 2nd Avenue. So he came back to the apartment and told me, and so the next night we both went to hear Prabhupada at 26 2nd Avenue. I was very attracted to Prabhupada right from the start. His message rang a bell; and his voice, when he quoted the Sanskrit, it was just like music to me.
At any rate, I very quickly became Prabhupada's assistant, and we would cook together for all the people that would come to share Prabhupada's lunch. Everything was put on Prabhupada's plate; and then from Prabhupada's plate, he would distribute chapatis and rice and dahl and everything to 10, 15 people that gathered there. And there was always enough, everyone was always full. We cooked the prasadam in his apartment kitchen, and we served it in his bedroom. We all sat around in a circle on the floor. He had no furniture. The thing that attracted me most to Prabhupada was his certainty. He didn't say, "Maybe this is the truth," or "My opinion is…" He wasn't like the professors I knew at Columbia. He spoke with finality, "Krishna says in Bhagavad-gita such-and-such, this is the way it is," and he was sure.
Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada – Remembrances by Yadubara Dasa
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