True sannyasa means freedom to serve God through pilgrimage, accepting death naturally rather than clinging to life through anxious medical confinement.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: I wish that you GBC manage very nicely and consider that I am dead, and let me try to travel all the tīrthasthāna, without any responsibility. If I become recovered from this malady, I shall come back and then I shall die anyway. What is that, when the dead body is there, let them bring to Māyāpur and Vṛndāvana. I am thinking in this way.
Bring little medicine and no medicine, little milk, and travel one place to another, and if there is death, what is the lamentation? My age is ripe. In the open air and bullock cart or during daytime, eh? Or you can say civil suicide.
Although living, but consider me dead for the time being. You manage, and nowadays there is in India ample sunshine. So during daytime I shall travel, and nighttime you make a camp under a tree. In this way let me travel all the tīrthasthāna.
I am thinking in this way. What is your opinion? Bhavānanda: Śrīla Prabhupāda, we promise that we'll manage everything to the best of our ability. Prabhupāda: No, no, you are managing, I know, but you are all important men, and unnecessarily you are bound up. You cannot go. So Lokanātha party has got some experience, and let me go.
In India the climate is now good. If I recover, it is very good. You know. So what is the wrong?
If I die, then the body will be brought either in Vṛndāvana or Māyāpur, that's all. And if I live, it will be a great end of a life. You are all experienced.
Jayapatākā: As much as you have trained us, Śrīla Prabhupāda, that is only how much we are experienced. We don't want that you be burdened any more with material management problems, but serving your... Prabhupāda: No, not from that point of view. What is the use of lying down here? Jayapatākā: The kavirāja said... Prabhupāda: Kavirāja may say... Jayapatākā: ...that even that your body is going to..., is got a life of six to ten years, but he said even a healthy cow, if it's kept locked up inside of a room, then it will deteriorate. Prabhupāda: And therefore I say, [laughs] don't keep me locked up. You do your duty as I have trained you, and let me be free, and if money required, he'll come and take and go back again as he is coming to take book. Jayapatākā: What? Prabhupāda: They have got experience, Indian, you can go village to village and...