Air Hostess who ate Prabhupada's Maha Prasadam
By GURUDEV

......of the many wonderful pastimes of Srila Prabhupad I heard a  wonderful story that I'd never heard the second part of until now. First  part was with Prabhupad travelling to South America with his two  servants, the temple where they'd been gave them a packed lunch for the  plane, so in the air Srutakirti Prabhupad's servant opened Prabhupad's  lunch pack and served him his prasadam of puffed rice and peanuts.  Prabhupad had his fill and handed over the remnants to Srutakirti who'd  just began eating when the lady air hostess comes over and in one motion  says that looks tasty and grabs a handful throws it in her mouth.  Prabhupad smiled, Srutakirti was somewhat shocked. She then asked why  bring your own food. Srutakirti informed her  that they are vegetarians etc etc. She immediately said is there  anything else I can get you, fruit milk? Prabhupad said "Hot milk". Five  minutes later she returned with three cups of hot milk she got from  First class. Prabhupad thanked her and the devotees discussed among  themselves Prabhupad remarking that it is a natural nature of a pious  woman to serve....... Anyway over the years this had become one of  Srutakirti's favourite Prabhupad pastime stories to tell.
 
Anyway  now part two, he was recently again in South America doing a preaching  tour enlivening devotees there (and selling his book "What is the  difficulty?") and he told that story in Brazil. Afterward one devotee  came up to him and asked would Srutakirti prabhu like to hear an amazing  story? This devotee was out in some remote village going door to door  selling books when he knocked on a door a lady opened the door wearing  tilak. She then invited the devotee in and her house was like a  little temple,an altar with Deities, pictures on the walls and all of  Prabhupad's books in Portuguese in her bookshelf. The devotee just had  to ask her how she became a devotee....... She said she used to be an  airline hostess some years ago and she met the author of these books, he  was so saintly and gentle and kind that she looked up who he was and  what he did from his boarding pass name. She then got some of his books  and began to read, they said to chant so she chanted and offer her food  to Krishna, so she did all that an became a devotee from that small  contact.......... Srutakirti was gob smacked, while at the same time  understood the potency of Prasadam and even a moments association with a  pure devotee like Srila Prabhupad. Now that has become one of  Srutakirti's favourite stories to tell also.


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Yours
Dinesh
Blog:http://dinesh-krsna.blogspot.com


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