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SRILA
PRABHUPADA LILAMTRA AS IT IS
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SRILA
PRABHUPADA LILAMTRA AS IT IS
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"When I saw,
then I began to run towards our house, and one Muhammadan, he wanted
to kill me. He took his lathi and actually... But I passed through
some way or other. I was saved. So as soon as I came before our gate
they got their life. So without speaking anything I went to the
bedroom, and it was in the month of... It is winter. So I... Without
saying anything I laid down, wrapping myself with quilt. So that
time I was rising: "Is it ended? The riot is ended?" I was asking. I
remember. So I would have been killed in that riot. So I have got
experience of this riot. That is the first riot in Calcutta, in
1911....Saved. Krsna saved. Unless Krsna saves, who can? So I had
the experience of riot in Calcutta in my childhood"
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Prabhupada: I
had such experience. I had some experience in my childhood in 1911. I
was thirteen years old. There was a riot. So our house was there in
Mahatma Gandhi Road, and all sides Muhammadans. We are simply... The
Mulliks and our house are simply some respectable men. Otherwise it
was surrounded (surrendered?) by... That is called Kwalabala and
Bastik, all Muhammadans, backside fully Muhammadans. So the riot was
there, and I went to play. There is a square, Marker(?) Square. So I
did not know the riot has taken place. I was coming home. So one of my
class friends said that "You do not go to your house. That side is
rioting now." So because we are in the Muhammadan quarter, this
fighting between two parties, that was going on. It is usual. So I
thought it may be like that, that two gundas are fighting. I have
seen. One gunda is stabbing the other gunda. I have seen. And they are
pickpockets. When you are passing they would... I have seen, he is
pickpocketing. (laughter) And they were our neighbor men. So I thought
"It must be like that. This is going on." But when I came the crossing
of Mahatma Gandhi... At that time Harrison Road it was. Harrison Road
and Holi..., Holiday, Halliday Street, yes. So one shop was being
plundered. Putamat putamat putamat..." So I was child, a boy. I
became... "What is this happening?" In the meantime all, my father,
mother, members: "Oh, the child has not come." They became so mad,
they came out of home expecting, "Wherefrom the child will come?" So
what could I do? When I saw, then I began to run towards our house,
and one Muhammadan, he wanted to kill me. He took his lathi and
actually... But I passed through some way or other. I was saved. So as
soon as I came before our gate they got their life. So without
speaking anything I went to the bedroom, and it was in the month of...
It is winter. So I... Without saying anything I laid down, wrapping
myself with quilt. So that time I was rising: "Is it ended? The riot
is ended?" I was asking. I remember. So I would have been killed in
that riot. So I have got experience of this riot. That is the first
riot in Calcutta, in 1911.
Gopala Krsna: We haven't had any such experience. Setterji: I was passing on my car after Pakistan from Laul(?) and they put bomb, hand grenade, and the back glass broken, but we... Prabhupada: Saved. Krsna saved. Unless Krsna saves, who can? So I had the experience of riot in Calcutta in my childhood.
[S.P.Room
Conversation, January 3, 1977, Bombay]
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Dear Prabhu's please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Please forgive my offenses. I humbly request you to send any quotes from Srila Prabhupada which describe his transcendental qualities and pastimes. In this way together we may be able to compile a book for his glorification and our meditation on his exalted personality. Thankyou. Your servant Mukunda dasa.
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