Krishna's grace alone sustains the devotee through impossible trials when surrender is complete and sincere.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: Otherwise I could not understand. So I passed through third heart attacks. One, two, three. They say that anyone who gets heart attack, the third attack, he must expire.
Hari-śauri: You had three attacks on the ship.
Hari-śauri: Oh. And then one when you got to...
Prabhupāda: New York. Third one—paralyzed.
Prabhupāda: Left side paralyzed. I do not know how we were saved.
Prabhupāda: And one girl, that captain's wife, she studied astrology. She was... She said, "Swāmījī, if you can survive your seventieth year, then you'll live for one hundred years." [Hari-śauri laughs] So, somehow or other, I survived my seventieth year. I do not know whether I shall live for hundred years, but seventieth year was severe—three heart attacks and paralysis.
Prabhupāda: Then without any family. At that time none of you were with me. I was alone. I was completely dependent on anyone.