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“But not all of the G.B.C. members are here to decide.”

“Do not touch politics,” Prabhupāda warned. “We are cultural and philosophy.”

“This is not the kind of mood we are trying to create here,” the devotee explained.

Hari-śauri could not speak. Hari-śauri could not keep his emotions in check, and yet he did not want to say, “Stay and struggle.” Somehow, Tamāla Kṛṣṇa had not caught Prabhupāda’s last remark to Hari-śauri, and so he leaned forward

“But chanting should not be stopped. Things should go on naturally.”

After several days of Prabhupāda’s not eating or drinking, Tamāla Kṛṣṇa tried again, but gently.

If not properly managed, then everything will be finished.”

Still Śrīla Prabhupāda lay quietly, not moving.

When Tamāla Kṛṣṇa remarked that Prabhupāda was not drinking much, he replied that he had no inclination

“If Haṁsadūta is not tired,” he said, “he can continue singing.”

Not knowing whether to laugh or cry, they fell silent again to see what Prabhupāda would do.

Physical presence is not important.” Paramānanda had brought a letter from his wife, Satyabhāmā.

Śrīla Prabhupāda’s disciples moved back and remained silent, not wanting to instigate any conversation

Now, more than ever, he wanted the medicine of the holy name, not of the doctors. Ghosh may come for the clinic he wants to develop, but not for my treatment.”

But when he arrived at Śrīla Prabhupāda’s door in Vṛndāvana, a devotee told him he could not bring the “Why not?” Harikeśa asked.

Akṣayānanda Swami and, as soon as he came into the room, inquired from him, “Will the bell ring or not

, some of the devotees began to cry, thinking that if Prabhupāda didn’t eat or even drink, he would not They were coming to accept it, surrounding him with kīrtana and not causing him any inconvenience with

He knew that Prabhupāda could not take it, but he asked if he could just at least take a little taste

Then slowly he lifted his hand, as if to call them all to attention, and said, “Do not fight among yourselves

Prabhupāda seemed to be demanding much more love and commitment; not that ISKCON could survive on organization