Simply Wonderfuls for a simply wonderful spiritual master!
Rupa-vilasa : There was a room full of Indian visitors in Vrindavan and Kundali was fanning Prabhupada with the chamara. All of a sudden the door burst open and it was Vishal and Vishalani carrying platters of Simply Wonderfuls. At the top of his voice he announced as he burst through the door, "Simply Wonderfuls for a simply wonderful spiritual master!" Prabhupada started grinning because he was often highly entertained by Vishal.
Then Vishal and his wife went around distributing Simply Wonderfuls to everybody in the room. Vishal then took one of Prabhupada's books off the shelf, opened it up and began to glorify Prabhupada and all of his books and his writing and what a fantastic personality Prabhupada was. Then he went around and distributed books to the people in the room and got donations. Kundali was describing that his mind was completely blown by all of this because he'd never seen anybody act like this around Prabhupada.
Then Vishal finished up his little book distribution excursion. Prabhupada the whole time was just smiling, nodding his head and then Vishal said to Prabhupada on his was out, "Prabhupada, just one thing." "Yes?" He said, "I haven't got Srimad-Bhagavatam 7th Canto Part 3 yet. Can I borrow yours?" Prabhupada said, "Take it!"
Whenever Prabhupada would circumambulate the temple in the morning in Vrindavan, Vishal would be standing with his hands folded chanting prayers from the Bhagavatam and then give the English translations. On this particular morning there was water on the temple steps because it had just rained. Prabhupada just snapped at Vishal and said, "Do something practical," He said, "Clean this up." (laughs) So that was his response to the glorification. He ordered him to do some cleaning.
Reference: Srila Prabhupada Remembrances - Siddhanta Dasa
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