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Prabhupada Seeks Forgiveness From Godbrothers, Distress Functions As Purifying Austerity

📅 October 13, 1977 📍 Vrindavan ⏱ 64 min
Distress purifies a devotee's heart like fire refines gold, transforming suffering into sacred austerity and grace.
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Bhakti-cāru: [Transl. Śrīla Prabhupāda, Pisimā has come. She is asking would you like to eat anything now?]

Bhakti-cāru: [Transl. Pisimā, Śrīla Prabhupāda is asking what will he eat?] Pisimā: [Transl. Will you eat some puffed rice mixed with milk cream? It will be tasty with little sugar.]

Prabhupāda: [Transl. Yes.] Pisimā: [Transl. Then? Then you say what would you like to eat?]

Bhakti-cāru: [Transl. That's good. That same thing puffed rice with milk cream] Pisimā: [Transl. Yes, I was saying it will be tasteful with sugar. Is there milk already boiled?]

Bhakti-cāru: [Transl. Let me go and see.] Pisimā: [Transl. Let me get puffed rice. Will he eat now? You bring and I will mix it and give. See if the milk is already boiled.] [kīrtana] [break]

Purī Mahārāja: Dandavat Praṇām. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Purī Mahārāja.

Purī Mahārāja: [Transl. And Āśrama Mahārāja, our Viśākhapattanam Maṭha's Puruṣottama Brahmacārī whose sannyāsa name is Tīrtha Mahārāja. And Ānanda Prabhu has also come.]

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