The guru's blessing awakens the disciple's eternal purpose, and knowledge flows forever through the chain of love and obedience.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: [indistinct] "...simple expression of reverence and love. The disciple, Abhaya Charan Dāsa, was to become His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, founder-ācārya of International Society, Krishna Consciousness." So whatever I appreciated forty years ago, the same principle is going on.
There is no change. What I understood my spiritual master... Practically I met him in 1922, and this poetry was written in 1936. That means fourteen years before writing this poetry, I met my Guru Mahārāja in 1922.
At that time I was quite a young man, twenty-five years old only, and I was posted in a very responsible position and as the office manager of Dr. Bose's laboratory. And I was fond of, in those days, of Gandhi's movement. In 1922 I joined Gandhi's movement, and I gave up my educational career because one of the Gandhi's program was to boycott the universities.
That's a very long story. And many students gave up their educational career and joined this Gandhi's movement, and I was one of them. So Dr. Bose, Kartik Chandra Bose, he's a very important man. At that time he was managing director of Bengal Chemical Company.
Now there is a street in the central Calcutta, Dr. Kartik Bose Street. So he was very important man, and he was our family physician and my father's very intimate friend. So when I gave up my education and I was joining Gandhi's movement, at that time Dr.
Kartik Chandra Bose asked me to join him. So with the permission of my father, I joined. So I was fond of, at that time, this Gandhi's noncooperation movement. And then, when I joined Dr.
Bose's laboratory, of course, I was dressed in khaddar. So Dr. Bose liked that dress, khaddar dress. He told me one day that "Out of your whole Gandhi's movement, I like this khaddar only." [laughter] Dr.