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“I thought I would go with my daṇḍa,” said Tamāla Kṛṣṇa Gosvāmī, “and, without anybody else, simply wander from city to city in India and preach about Kṛṣṇa, without any vehicle or anything, just like Lord Caitanya

Prabhupāda gave the example of the gopīs’ worship of the goddess Kātyāyanī; their worship had not been for material benefit but for devotion to Kṛṣṇa. Similarly, if one worshiped Lord Śiva with the aim of serving Lord Kṛṣṇa, that would be bhakti.

Ramakrishna began by saying, “Swamiji, we have been having some discussion about devotion to Lord Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa or Śiva?”

Gathering them together along with Tamāla Kṛṣṇa, he said, “Tamāla Kṛṣṇa wants to take sannyāsa.

Prabhupāda was also concerned with Mādrī-devī dāsī, Tamāla Kṛṣṇa’s wife. She was an attractive, intelligent girl who had given her life to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and Tamāla Kṛṣṇa Even as householders, Tamāla Kṛṣṇa and his wife had been renounced, traveling with Prabhupāda throughout

At Tamāla Kṛṣṇa Gosvāmī’s sannyāsa initiation, Śrīla Prabhupāda had given him the sannyāsa-mantra, a Vaiṣṇava sannyāsa emphasizes engaging one’s body, mind, and words in ecstatic service to Kṛṣṇa, as distinguished The Vaiṣṇava sannyāsī, by taking shelter of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, crosses the ocean of nescience and

The walks were brisk and refreshing and full of talk about Kṛṣṇa.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa was Śrīla Prabhupāda’s Governing Body Commission secretary for India. Still, he counted on Tamāla Kṛṣṇa as his trusted assistant in important dealings. He would send Tamāla Kṛṣṇa from one Indian center to another to help the local devotees with governmental

preacher, nevertheless, had to make sacrifices – not artificially or arbitrarily, but to expand the Kṛṣṇa Sometimes serving Kṛṣṇa was pleasurable, sometimes difficult.

“You don’t worry about all of this,” he said “ – whether you’ll get a wife, or whether you will get money , or this or that. Later on, when it is time for you to get married, I will bring one American girl, and you will marry

One of the devotees then hinted, “Sarasvatī, where is Kṛṣṇa? Who has Kṛṣṇa?” She exclaimed, “Prabhupāda has Kṛṣṇa!” and she rushed up to Prabhupāda, convinced that he was holding Kṛṣṇa. And Prabhupāda reached behind his seat and pulled out a small Kṛṣṇa mūrti similar to the silver Kṛṣṇa

One night during the slide show, Śrīla Prabhupāda called Tamāla Kṛṣṇa over beside his vyāsāsana. He sat back a moment while Tamāla Kṛṣṇa took in what he had said. Then Tamāla Kṛṣṇa leaned forward and said with determination, “One way or another, Śrīla Prabhupāda,

such a huge institution that now his disciples might identify with the institution rather than with Kṛṣṇa Prabhupāda replied that because Kṛṣṇa is absolute, Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa’s institution are nondifferent. To identify with Kṛṣṇa’s institution was to identify with Kṛṣṇa directly.

In Bombay, just prior to coming to Jaipur, Tamāla Kṛṣṇa had asked Prabhupāda’s permission to take sannyāsa Śrīla Prabhupāda, therefore, had to carefully consider whether or not to give Tamāla Kṛṣṇa sannyāsa and

After the ceremony Prabhupāda called Tamāla Kṛṣṇa Mahārāja to his room.

But Kṛṣṇa consciousness must run on two parallel lines, just as a train runs on two rails. Bhāgavata-mārga referred to the philosophy of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, hearing and chanting about Kṛṣṇa and disseminating the message of Kṛṣṇa.

Śrīla Prabhupāda then called her forward and asked, “Sarasvatī, where is Kṛṣṇa?”

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa Mahārāja offered obeisances and walked out.

Prabhupāda’s disciples had already seen formal exchanges of obeisances between Prabhupāda and his Godbrothers , as when in Bombay they had seen Prabhupāda get off his vyāsāsana and offer daṇḍavats to his Godbrothers And they didn’t feel themselves being treated condescendingly or superficially, or being regarded as Through Prabhupāda’s guidance they began to learn more of the essential friendly and humble exchanges

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