05 March 2012

KKSblog.com - Living relationship part 2

KKSblog.com - Living relationship part 2

Living relationship part 2

Posted: 04 Mar 2012 03:55 PM PST

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, November 2011, Mayapur) Lecture: Caitanya-caritāmṛta part 11

Here in Mayapur Malati was appointed to do the cooking, and it was very difficult. That was when Prabhupada was still living in a hut. Now that hut is gradually being surrounded by skyscrapers, and I hope that hut will always stay there…………………That was Prahbupada's hut and everybody's hut. Everybody was living there, including Brahmananda…. even in the flood in the rafters – as he told us a many of times.

So Malati had to cook under those conditions. There was a coal stove. She first had to make the coal stove a trip and a half to get it nicely burning. Nowadays we just put the electric fan on it at the beginning to get it burning, but if you don't have that then you had to do it by hand. It takes forever for the coal to burn, that's a whole trip, and when the coal was burning, the secretary would march in and take the coal for Prabhupada's frankincense, and she had to start again…. and the cooking had to be done in time. So what could she say?

There was a big army treasurer and he would give money for her to do the shopping. Bengalis are a little tight…they are known to be very tight. So they gave her a little and all according to the prices that the Bengalis would get, and then he goes:

'A white lady.'

So you can imagine how much she had to fight in the markets to just get all the bhoga everyday, and when she got it…………it was just too much…. with all the smoke and so on.

So she had just decided on this particular day:

'This is it, I'm going to quit…I had enough…I'm quitting.'

So then on that day it was announced to her that Prabhupada wanted her to cook something special, because his god brothers were coming for Prasadam. So anyway, it's okay since she wouldn't quit in the middle of that. So she cooked a feast, and then she brought out the pots of prasadam. Prabhupada was sitting amongst all these sannyasi god brothers and Malati walked in with the pots and Prabhupada said:

'Oh, this is Malati. She will do anything for me – anything. She would cut her throat for me and I would do the same for her!'

That was it she didn't quit!


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Living relationship part 1

Posted: 04 Mar 2012 03:49 PM PST

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, November 2011, Mayapur) Lecture: Caitanya-caritāmṛta part 11

It is said that Brahmananda's mother came again and was complaining that her sons were bowing down to Prabhupada. Prabhupada said:

'Yes…yes, I am also bowing down to my spiritual master. That is the standard, that is the way it's done.'

So Prabhupada never made a big thing of it. She made a big thing:

'He is always bowing down to you…bowing down to you!'

Then on another occasion Prabhupada asked for a donation. She said:

'I gave you my two sons…I gave you two sons!'

She was very feisty. So Prahbupada said:

'Yes, and they are very nice. They have the good qualities of their mother!'

Prabhupada was like that he was an expert. I think he may have even said that the son takes out the good qualities of his mother. Giriraj's mother was also dealt with very expertly. She also came to Bombay and they wanted him to return back to America. So they were making a big thing about his health:

'We are very concerned about his health, and here in India he is not used to this climate. He has never been so skinny in his life! Just as a mother I am really concerned. Do you know what I mean? On the contrary of this please let him come back to America.'

Prabhupada didn't respond, and then a little while later he had some sweets brought out, some sandesh, and he gave it to her. So he said:

'Please…please take'.

And she took it, and Prabhupada asked:

'Is it tasty?’

She said:

'Oh yes, very tasty.’

Prabhpada said:

'Yes it's very tasty and it's also very healthy. It's full of protein and I will make sure that everyday your son gets these sweets and in that way he will stay very healthy!'

So there is so much to do in these Guru-disciple relationships. So it's a living relationship. Unlike the fundamentalists who take in the words and see these words as immovable, it's a living relationship – it's a living person, there are two living persons involved – the Guru and disciple…and there is a relationship. Prabhupada was very much working with these relationships!


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