https://youtu.be/3ajoRn93oFEHe is alert. Conscious 24 hours a day.Gargamuni Dasa: There is a nice story to that, Gurukripa tells. This is in Hawaii, and Gurukripa's talking to Prabhupada. And then he sees Prabhupada closes his eyes, and he thinks, "Oh, he is falling asleep." So Gurukripa very quietly gets up, and tippy toes out the door. He is going to the door, he opens the door, and Prabhupada says, "Where are you going?" He wasn't sleeping. He was in samadhi. He is thinking of Krishna. He is alert. The pure devotee is conscious of Krishna twenty-four hours a day.
I looked up that word. It's "twenty-four hours a day." Prabhupada said that hundreds of times. A pure devotee is conscious of Krishna. How do you become conscious of Krishna while you are sleeping? Huh? "And one should not become a guru until he is Krishna conscious twenty-four hours a day." That he has said. So who is conscious of Krishna twenty-four hours a day? Who doesn't sleep? This is the power of Srila Prabhupada, such transcendental person.
We have no idea of his powers because we see him as a human. We don't see him as superhuman. He wrote me that letter. It's a famous letter. "Never consider the spiritual master as an ordinary human being, but he is superhuman." Now, what does that mean? We can find it in Prabhupada's books, in his letters, and in his conversations.
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https://youtu.be/QMmy3bVAR5oHow Prabhupada looked ten days after his strokeGargamuni Dasa: So this, I wanted to show. Just so you get an idea, how Prabhupada looked ten days after his stroke. Remember now - he was paralyzed and blind in the left side. This is how he looked ten days after. Can you see it is a physical problem?
Usually, when there is a stroke, that's worse than heart-attack. It's called a brain aneurysm. There is always a side effect, speech or like Jayapataka, he has a physical problem on his mouth. Or you die. Every year, there is twenty-five million strokes in the world, but most of them die, and the balance you have problems. You see any problem? Complete recovery ten days after only. I don't see any problem.
This is in the beach house. You can see it's a little cool, although it's June, which is hot here. In America it's still a little cool, the breezes off the ocean. So Prabhupada had to wear a coat. It was very windy. But you can't see any physical problem. That's the miracle. This shows you that a pure devotee is never in a diseased condition. That his condition was a benefit for us to become attached to him more than just a teacher, but as our father, spiritual father. This is proof.
Later on in New York, the San Francisco devotees who Prabhupada went previously in 1967, it was the end of December he went. He went to San Francisco where Mukunda opened the center, and he stayed there till March. So Prabhupada, when he opened the center, he would stay three, four months. So they wanted Prabhupada to come to better weather in San Francisco, and Prabhupada went there. But actually, it was worse, that place where they had for him. There was no place to walk, and also he couldn't go to the temple, and it was not very convenient for him there. It was a winding road, and Prabhupada would get dizzy. He was already dizzy from the stroke. That's when he decided to go back to India because he still had problems inside. Because a stroke is a brain and aneurysm, and he felt pain in the brain. So he went back to India, and he came back about five months later.
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https://youtu.be/OM6D1Zr296sAccepting the reactions of the disciplesGargamuni Dasa: But Prabhupada also says in Adi-lila, ninth chapter, eleventh verse, "A Vaishnava is always protected by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but if he appears to be an invalid, this gives a chance to his disciples to serve him." It's in shastra! We had to, I had to carry Prabhupada to the bathroom in India, in Bombay. They had to carry him, me, Tamal Krishna and a few others carried him to the bathroom. Does this mean Prabhupada is an invalid? No! This is an illusion. It's written in shastra. It says right here. This is written in shastra. A Vaishnava, if he appears to be an invalid, this gives a chance to disciples to serve him to increase the love between the disciple and spiritual master.
This is another conversation between a devotee called Prajapati and Prabhupada. A very important, very important conversation this is, about the spiritual master, and his so-called disease or health. We should not be illusioned. Prajapati is speaking, "Is it true, Srila Prabhupada, that sometimes the spiritual master has to suffer if his disciples act in sinful ways?" Prabhupada is returning the question, "The same way. Bodily suffering. Infection. The spiritual master accepts the all infection. So as the infection acts on the body, so there is little suffering. Krsna says, 'All the sinful reaction of the surrendered soul...' So spiritual master is the representative of Krsna. So he has also to accept. The injunction is one should not accept many disciples. But for preaching work we have to do that." So Prajapati says, "Prabhupada, I'm so sorry that you have to suffer cause we're such rascals." And what does Prabhupada say? "No, no. I'll not suffer." [Morning Walk - December 17, 1973, Los Angeles] Prabhupada doesn't suffer for our reactions. He is a shaktyavesa-avatara.
That doesn't mean that if we become guru, we don't suffer. We do suffer. We could see it in many of our guru God-brothers. They are suffering physical problems due to the sins of their disciples. But Prabhupada doesn't. He says it here. "I will not suffer." He is different. When he says, when he is talking about suffering, that's not for himself. That's for us. We will suffer if we take the chance of becoming guru, then we have to suffer, but not him. He is a nitya-siddha. Shaktyavesa-avatara. He doesn't produce, he is not born into karma. He's sent from Vaikuntha. These are all from shastra.
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