Master to Disciple

Prabhupad always said - "I have no ability. I'm only simply following the instructions of my Guru Maharaj and it is only by his mercy alone that I am able to do everything." Thus, he was an object of his Guru's mercy. In a span of 11 years, Srila Prabhupad 

1. initiated 5000 disciples all around the world, 
2. built 108 temples all around the world, 
3. created many farm communities all around the world, 
4. gave 2200 lectures all around the world, 
5. wrote 7000 letters to his disciples and well wishers, 
6. recorded 20 albums, 
7. wrote 72 volumes of books. And with all these he still had time to play with the little children, sit up every night writing books and also had separate time for his personal reading. And Srila Prabhupad says - all this is not my strength, it is the potency of my Guru.  

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Mango

At the age of 5, he happened to eat a mango which happened to be not offered to Krsna. His father, Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur, told him that it was a great offense to eat without offering to the Lord. From that day he gave up eating Mangoes for the rest of his life for having committed this offense.

Billion

In his teens, he had received the title 'Siddhanta Saraswati'. He also took a vow of chanting 1 billion names of the Lord. For this, he chanted everyday 3 lakh names for upto 9 years and 4 months at Mayapur in a hut which he had built with his own hands. When it rained, he would sit with an umbrella and continue chanting. He chanted eating only once a day, that too plain rice without any salt.

Milk

Once a desire to have milk entered his mind. And he realised that this was sense gratification. He regretted his desire. But the Lord arranged that a wealthy man bring a huge quantity of milk, which was cooked and offered to Lord Gauranga. And the Pujari brought this Mahaprasad milk to Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarawati Thakur. When he recieved the offering, he felt very remorse that the Lord took so much trouble to just satisfy his one little desire. He condemned himself for having made the Lord do seva to him. 

He states - We can do seva for Hari, but Hari should not do seva to us. (We should not make Hari do seva to us). He always felt the whole world is engaged in serving Hari, except himself.

Clocks

On 1st Jan, when he was 62 years and 10 months of age, at morning 5.30am, his servant heard him say - Oh Krsna, Oh Krsna - and he left this mortal world. And all the clocks in the ashram stopped at that very time. 

Kashi

He was so strong and bold and tough and always RIGHT in all his debates, that the opposing scholars were always afraid to face him. So it happened that one day he was invited at Kashi for a debate . He accepted the invitation - I'm ready, i'll come.

1. Half an hour later, one of them came and told him that he should not refer to Srimad Bhagavatam in his debate. He said - Ok, I'm ready. 
2. Then again after half an hour they said - you cannot refer to Ramayan and Mahabharat too. He said - Yes, I'm ready. 
3. Then again after half an hour they said - You also cannot refer to any of the Vedas. You have to refer to the Vedanta Sutra only. He said - Yes, I'm ready. 

Hearing this, they came and cancelled the debate !!