Prabhupada converting Me into a Devotee!!
Yadubara das: I first met Srila Prabhupada here in Surat. I'd come to India to do a master's degree thesis in photography on the origins of Krishna consciousness in India. The summer before I'd done a couple of magazine articles on the movement. I brought those magazine articles with me and showed Srila Prabhupada, and he liked them. He went through each of them page by page, much to my embarrassment because one of them had some nudity in it. Srila Prabhupada didn't bat an eye, he just kept going through until he reached the article on Krishna consciousness. And then his comment was, "Even we find gold in a dirty place, we take it."
The second day I was there Srila Prabhupada asked me, "So you're going to become a devotee?" I couldn't imagine myself wearing the robes and the shaved head so I said no, although inwardly I felt I was. So Srila Prabhupada's reply was, "Then you cannot stay." I was naturally shocked. And I didn't leave, I stayed with the party for two months. Every day I'd sit in Srila Prabhupada's room, and invariably when a visitor came in he'd introduce me. He would say, "This is Mr. John, he is from America. He is an expert photographer." In this way Srila Prabhupada encouraged me, and he could understand I was becoming a devotee gradually.
Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada – Remembrances by Yadubara Dasa
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