I visited as a brahmacary carrying a small metal suitcase, 1973...

[Tamohara dasa ADMIN.]

I visited as a brahmacary carrying a small metal suitcase, 1973,  but meanwhile more or less starving and with pneumonia in my lung. Eventually a yogi invited me to occupy one of the empty caves nearby and stay there in samadhi. I had split from Hamsadutta's Mercedes bus group, and had wandered to Kuruksetra and Rishikesa. I was not so well, and thus tired of all the struggles, and wanted to do just move into that cave, but i remember Srila Prabhupada saying "work now, samadhi later", and I was about 23. I remember leaving Haridvara, dragging that damn suitcase, and could see the grey haze hovering over the Gangetic Plain as we descended back into the bustling dusty ancient mainland India.