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“Yes,” Śrīla Prabhupāda said, “this is not real ānanda. Prahlāda Mahārāja has said that this material world is crushing him …

Except that Prabhupāda’s face looked thin, his appearance was the same as before his illness. He sat among them, wrapped …

Sitting inches away from Prabhupāda on the beach blanket, Satsvarūpa asked a question on behalf of the devotees in New …

“No.”

“What if someone has given us some leather shoes?”

“Leather means violence,” Prabhupāda said. He pointed to Satsvarūpa’s shoes of inexpensive man-made material. “Your country is very nice. By …

As Jadurāṇī helped Govinda dāsī gather flowers, the two girls talked together. Both had heard the men say that women …

“Yes,” Prabhupāda answered. “If you think of yourselves as women, how will you make any advancement? You must see yourself …

Śrīla Prabhupāda gave Jadurāṇī a photograph of himself to paint from. Taken in India, before he had come to America, …

“Noooo,” he said thoughtfully, stretching out the sound of the word. “No. That is not unhappy. That was a moment …

Prabhupāda drew Jadurāṇī’s attention to a picture on his wall. Mother Yaśodā was rebuking her son, Kṛṣṇa, for stealing butter, …

After staying with Prabhupāda for two days, Satsvarūpa and Jadurāṇī, the devotees visiting from New York, had to return to …

Gaurasundara, still massaging, glanced wide-eyed at the others. Prabhupāda was now speaking in a loud, forceful voice, as if addressing …

A few soft words had become half an hour of strong, emphatic speech meant to move the audience against all …

The devotees had just seen Swamiji immediately use up whatever energy he had gained from his afternoon’s rest. Although they …

When Satsvarūpa and Jadurāṇī returned to New York, Brahmānanda had them tell the others about Swamiji. Satsvarūpa told how he …

Prabhupāda stayed in Long Branch for three weeks. But when Sri Krishna Pandit wrote saying that he couldn’t arrange for …

At the end of June, he returned to 26 Second Avenue and to the hospital for a checkup. The doctor …

So the others went and did the program, and I waited. Once or twice he called me in and had …

Kīrtanānanda: It was on Tuesday afternoon, Memorial Day, and I was sitting with Swamiji in his room. While kīrtana was …