The Bhagavatam and kirtan are the supreme medicine; modern civilization's endless pursuits merely hasten spiritual death.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: ...in that paper he wrote, "In case I die, these three men will be trustees, and the majority will be effective." So that scrap of paper, Tīrtha Mahārāja kept it. And later on, Guru Mahārāja wanted to make a constitution, but he avoided. But actually, after his demise that scrap of paper was presented in the high court, and property was given. That is the...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That's... It was considered as a will.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Hmm. No need of big, formal document.
Prabhupāda: He is the original founder. Whatever he wills, that's all. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He recovered from that hernia operation.
Prabhupāda: [laughs] No, and later on, he did not undergo hern... He thought, then, don't do. After all, everyone has got sentiment. He thought it that "The doctor has been called to kill me." So he did not undergo the hernia operation.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He thought the doctor was paid off to kill him.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: 'Cause sometimes people were paid off to kill him.