Memories of Srila Prabhupada
(This is a remembrance of a small pastime of Srila Prabhupada that happened at Hare Krishna Land in Juhu, Bombay (now Mumbai) around 1973 in the monsoon season.
This article is a narration of that incidence by His Grace Hari Das Prabhu ACBSP to writer Premanjana Das on 29 December 2013, Sunday at the office of ISKCON Television (ITV) located at same Hare Krishna Land in Juhu, Mumbai.This article is a tribute by Hari Das prabhu to his spiritual master His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada for his Vyasa pooja offering 2014.)
In 1973 His Grace Jagatpurusha Prabhu organized a play ‘killing of Pootna’ and we (disciples of Srila Prabhupada in Juhu at that time) requested Srila Prabhupada to watch the play, then we came to know that Srila Prabhupada was not feeling well at that time and he had to travel from Mumbai at the same time.We started the play and he stopped at the ‘pandal’ for a brief time to watch the play.I was playing the role of ‘Pootna’ in that play and when Srila Prabhupada saw me as ‘Pootna’ starting laughing aloud and stayed to watch that play a little longer than what he planned to and we went on with our play.I was very happy to see that I made Srila Prabhupada and everybody else laugh when they saw me in the play in the role of ’Pootna’.Later on I was informed by the team of Srila Prabhupada that Srila Prabhupada was having a ‘toothache’ (a terrible pain in his teeth) and did not talk much the whole day due to that.
Written By:
Premanjana Das (Pranjal Joshi)
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