Nevertheless, Prabhupada's day-to-day letters from his disciples were still filled with questions that could be quite competently answered by the senior devotees. In reply to such a letter sent from Upendra, Srila Prabhupada wrote:
I never asked my spiritual master any question except one: "How shall I serve you?" So in this way, kindly inform the others that I may be relieved to give you so many more nice books -- that is my real desire.
Mohanananda appeared to be taking an overall managerial role in Australia, although he was not officially a GBC member. Srila Prabhupada was happy with this situation, and he also wanted his senior devotees in Australia to give him some relief by taking the burden of day-to-day management on their shoulders.
He also requested Mohanananda:
I am an old man now and my interests are turning to philosophy and translation. If you help me by relieving me from this administrative work, that will free me to give you so many more fine books on Vedic literature and from our own devotional line. So kindly assist me in this way.
Actually, if you simply serve in a surrendered attitude and go on chanting regularly, the answers to everything will come out automatically: "To those who are constantly devoted and worship Me with love, I give the understanding by which they can come to Me."
- From "The Great Transcendental Adventure" by HG Kurma Prabhu
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