My father was not very rich man, but still, whatever I wanted, he would give me. He never chastised me, but full love

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"My father was not very rich man, but still, whatever I wanted, he would give me. He never chastised me, but full love" |"my father never chastised me"

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

My father was not very rich man, but still, whatever I wanted, he would give me. He never chastised me, but full love.

Room Conversation -- July 9, 1976, New York:

Pālikā: Would you like to take fruit now, or prasādam as regular?

Prabhupāda: No, no, I have taken breakfast. So Bali-mardana Prabhu, doing all right?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Those are your servants' quarters, and the kitchen, and there's also a dresser in your bedroom.

Prabhupāda: There is . . . there is any closet to be locked?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh, yes.

Hari-śauri: Just here, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: This closet here is a walk-in closet. It's a small room with a lock. You also have a cabinet that locks.

Ādi-keśava: Your cabinet from Henry St.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's a big walk-in closet.

Prabhupāda: Oh, that's nice. So I shall again stay in New York? Nice place.

Ādi-keśava: From this window here you can see the Empire State Building and all the big buildings in New York.

Prabhupāda: No, very nice.

Rāmeśvara: There will not be any noise here either, because this is the eleventh floor.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Rāmeśvara: So it's very peaceful for translating work.

Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.

Prabhupāda: My Guru Mahārāja left alone, so he has sent so many gurus to take care of me. You are all my Guru Mahārāja's representatives.

Bali-mardana: We are guru-dāsa.

Prabhupāda: So you are taking care. I am very much obliged to you. I sometimes think in my childhood I was very, very pet son of my father. I have admitted that in that Kṛṣṇa book. I told my father was not very rich man, but still, whatever I wanted, he would give me. He never chastised me, but full love. Then of course I got friends and I was married. By Kṛṣṇa's grace everyone loved me. (laughs) And I came to this foreign country without any acquaintance. So Kṛṣṇa has sent so many fathers to love me. In that way I am fortunate. At the last stage if I live very peacefully, that is a great mercy of Kṛṣṇa. By Kṛṣṇa's mercy everything is possible. So we shall stick to Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet and everything is possible.

My father never chastised me.

Room Conversation About Blitz News Clipping -- August 21, 1976, Hyderabad:

Prabhupāda: That is a fact. I got good father and good spiritual master. That's all.

Gargamuni: We have gotten bad father, but now we have spiritual father.

Prabhupāda: No bad father. Unless good father, son cannot be good. Yathā yoni yathā bījam.

Hari-śauri: They must be just fallen.

Gargamuni: They have not accepted your mercy.

Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: They'll all benefit by the son's devotional service. It doesn't matter how fallen they are, you know.

Prabhupāda: My father never chastised me. Hmm.

Hari-śauri: But I think you said your mother was always very strict.

Prabhupāda: Because he was very lenient. So mother had to be little strict for my education.