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Prabhupada said, “This is Vaishnava. A Vaishnava is kind to every living entity. Not this squishing business.”
Sukadeva: Prabhupada said that you have to become like the bumblebee and not like the fly and Prabhupada proved it by his own example.
Once Nara-Narayan—who does not sing like a nightingale—was in the temple room singing and Prabhupada said, “Who is that singing?”
Karandhar said, “It’s Nara-Narayan, Srila Prabhupada.”
Prabhupada said, “Hmm, he keeps very good time.”
Once Hari Sauri’s alarm clock went off and Prabhupada said, “What is that sound?”
Hari Sauri said, “That’s the alarm clock, Srila Prabhupada.”
Prabhupada said, “Oh? Who is in danger?”
I looked at Hari Sauri and thought, “Wow! My spiritual master has a sense of humor!”
I couldn’t believe it because I had never heard Prabhupada use puns or sarcasm.
Prabhupada didn’t make a habit of it, but it was there. We laughed.
Pusta Krishna said, “Prabhupada, what should I do with this bug?”
I thought, “In this city—or state or country—who else can we ask, ‘What to do with this bug?'”
If you go to the mayor or the governor or the president of the United States and say, “What should I do with this bug?” he would look at you like you’re crazy.
“Why’s he asking me? You squish it or do whatever you want with it.”
But a devotee was asking Prabhupada this question and Prabhupada didn’t look at him as if he was crazy or asking something bizarre.
Prabhupada said, “Take him to the window.” Pusta Krishna let the bug out the window.
Prabhupada said, “This is Vaishnava. A Vaishnava is kind to every living entity. Not this squishing business.”
We were amazed that Prabhupada made a question about a bug into a Krishna conscious event.
Prabhupada was sitting on the stage in the temple on La Cienega Boulevard and to his right was Lord Jagannatha.
At the end of the class some Christian spoke some nonsense philosophy but Prabhupada didn’t even look at him.
He simply sat there and occasionally looked at Lord Jagannatha, as if the person speaking didn’t exist.
But Prabhupada listened to everything that man said.
Then Prabhupada looked at him and loudly proclaimed, “Christ said, ‘Thou shall not kill!’ Why are you killing?”
At that time I was a new devotee and a meateater but when Prabhupada said that, it scared the meat-eating right out of me.
Everyone in that temple room was frozen and the Christian had nothing to say, although he had plenty of time to respond.
Prabhupada’s potency was immediate.
There was no philosophy that you had to learn, there was nothing that you had to retain or absorb.
Prabhupada was so powerful that your realization was immediate.
In front of Srila Prabhupada you would never again think of eating meat.
His speaking was like a cold wind blowing off a tree’s last few leaves.
Prabhupada blew all the nonsense out of that person and anyone else there was convinced to never eat meat.
—Sukadeva
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Excerpt from “Memories-Anecdotes of a Modern-Day Saint”
by Siddhanta das

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