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Of the many wonderful pastimes of Srila Prabhupada I heard a wonderful
story that I'd never heard the second part of until now.
First part was with Prabhupada travelling to South America with his two
servants, the temple where they'd been gave them a packed lunch for the plane,
so in the air Srutakirti Prabhupada's servant opened Prabhupad's lunch pack and
served him his prasadam of puffed rice and peanuts. Prabhupada had his fill and
handed over the remnants to Srutakirti who'd just began eating when the lady
air hostess comes over and in one motion says that looks tasty and grabs a
handful throws it in her mouth. Prabhupada smiled, Srutakirti was somewhat
shocked. She then asked why bring your own food. Srutakirti informed her that
they are vegetarians etc etc. She immediately said is there anything else I can
get you, fruit milk? Prabhupada said "Hot milk".
Five minutes later she returned with three cups of hot milk she got from First
class. Prabhupada thanked her and the devotees discussed among themselves
Prabhupada remarking that it is a natural nature of a pious woman to
serve....... Anyway over the years this had become one of Srutakirti's
favourite Prabhupada pastime stories to tell.

Anyway now part two, he was recently again in South America doing a preaching
tour enlivening devotees there (and selling his book "What is the difficulty?")
and he told that story in Brazil. Afterward one devotee came up to him and
asked would Srutakirti prabhu like to hear an amazing story? This devotee was
out in some remote village going door to door selling books when he knocked on
a door a lady opened the door wearing tilak. She then invited the devotee in
and her house was like a little temple,an altar with Deities, pictures on the
walls and all of Prabhupada's books in Portuguese in her bookshelf. The devotee
just had to ask her how she became a devotee....... She said she used to be an
airline hostess some years ago and she met the author of these books, he was so
saintly and gentle and kind that she looked up who he was and what he did from
his boarding pass name. She then got some of his books and began to read, they
said to chant so she
 chanted and offer her food to Krishna, so she did all that an became a devotee
from that small contact.......... Srutakirti was gob smacked, while at the same
time understood the potency of Prasadam and even a moments association with a
pure devotee like Srila Prabhupada. Now that has become one of Srutakirti's
favourite stories to tell also.