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During massage I decided to ask Srila Prabhupada about an odd burn mark on the inside of the top of his thigh. Prabhupada smiled and told me how he got it: when he was about three years old he was playing alone in a back alley with a box of matches. He was pulling out the matchsticks and rubbing the colored portion on the side of the box. Not knowing they were alight he was dropping them in his lap. Suddenly, the thin cotton dhoti he was wearing burst into flames. He stood in the alley screaming. Just at that moment a man appeared who ran up to him and ripped off his blazing cloth and carried him home. Prabhupada smiled, saying that Krsna had saved him.

- From "A Transcendental Diary Vol 4" by HG Hari Sauri Prabhu

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