Running after Srila Prabhupada – Anecdote by Indradyumna Swami

“Once in Vrindavana after a public program, you and your servant left by ricksha for the Krsna Balarama Mandir in the dark night. I started walking home with some godbrothers, but I lagged behind and soon found myself alone. Suddenly your ricksha appeared as if from nowhere. You stopped the ricksha. ‘What are you doing here?’ you asked me. ‘I am lost, Srila Prabhupada,’ I said. You smiled. ‘Then follow me home,’ you said.

So I ran behind your ricksha the whole way back to Krsna Balarama Mandir. My dearest master, may I continue running behind you all the way back to the spiritual world, and there, in that transcendental abode, may I serve your every need and desire.” [Excerpted from Srila Gurudeva’s Vyasa Puja offering, 2012]