Posted by Ravi Chandran on August 25, 2011 at 10:51am
Posted on August 24, 2011Filed under BVKS SangaMany saintly persons used to visit my father’s house. My father wasVaisnava. He was Vaisnava, and he wanted me to become a Vaisnava. Wheneversome saintly person would come, he would ask him, “Please bless my son thathe can become a servant of Radharani.” That was his prayer. He never prayedfor anything. And he gave me education how to play mrdanga. My mother wasagainst. There was two teachers-one for teaching me A-B-C-D, and one forteaching me mrdanga. So the one teacher was waiting and the other teacherwas teaching me how to play on mrdanga. So my mother would be angry that“What is this nonsense? You are teaching mrdanga? What he will do with thismrdanga?” (chuckles) But perhaps my father wanted that I should be a greatmrdanga player in the future. (laughter) Therefore I am very much indebtedto my father, and I have dedicated my book, Krsna book, to him. He wantedthis. He wanted me to be preacher of Bhagavata, Srimad-Bhagavatam, andplayer of mrdanga and to become servant of Radharani. So every parent shouldthink like that; otherwise one should not become father and mother.>>> Ref. VedaBase => Arrival Lecture — Dallas, March 3, 1975
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