And what will please Prabhupada the most? Well, I remember that Tamala Krsna Maharaja was appointed the GBC secretary for India, and he was taking care for all of India. So that was very important; there were these big projects- big, big projects- but Tamala Krsna Maharaja had for some time been preaching in America with the Radha Damodara party. Then Prabhupada said that since he had left India, it didn’t go well. So Prabhupada said he should go back to India and resume that GBC post. But he didn’t want to go because he had a good time preaching. So how did he convince Prabhupada? He brought a whole group of new devotees that he had made and they were all nicely dressed up- tilaka, bramacari…- and he brought them to his room and he said, “Prabhupada, we have been preaching now with the bus party and these are all the new devotees that we made.” And he introduces them, “this is bhakta…” so and so and bhakta this and that- it was a whole room! And Prabhupada’s eye’s just became round and excited and he said, “All right, yes, you continue this program! You continue this program!” It was worth more than all the buildings and everything because what Prabhupada really cared for was that people would become devotees. So let us do something to make devotees. How can we make devotees? Prabhupada said, “very easy! You just show people how happy you are!” easy, isn’t it? So we have to firstly become really happy.(Excerpt from Pietermaritzburg class, September '08, HH Kadamba Kanana Maharaja)
