Prescription for the whole world
Prabhupada then recalled with a smile how Gargamuni had obtained the mimeographs in New York to begin printing the first editions of Back to Godhead for his newly-formed ISKCON. "The first machine introduced by you, yes. Then other machines came. I did not know, but I was thinking that if some typist would hear my tapes and type -- I was thinking like that -- expert typist. Here, tape recorder, you hear something and then type. Like that. And this machine, automatically, you hear and type, hear and type. This is the advancement on that idea -- dictaphone. Nowadays everyone is using. The doctors dictate prescription. The doctor, instead of sending note, he dictates for such and such patient, 'He should receive this, take like that.' That is recorded. Another, another, and immediately taken and the compounder hears and ... No writing."
Prabhupada's comments affirmed once again that he was always a forward-thinker, adaptable and able to use anything in Krsna's service for spreading Lord Caitanya's movement.
Jayapataka grinned. "Actually you are dictating the prescription for the whole world."
Prabhupada smiled back. "Yes. Bhavausadhac chrotra-mano-'bhiramat. And prescription is so sweet it pleases the ear and the heart. That is stated in the Bhagavata: bhavausadhac chrotra-mano-'bhiramat. It is medicine for this material disease. At the same time it is so pleasing to the ear and the heart. This is the very word, bhavausadhac chrotra. Srotra means aural, srotra-manah, and mind; mano-'bhiramat; abhirama, pleasing."
- From "A Transcendental Diary Vol 4" by HG Hari Sauri Prabhu
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