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Why We Don’t See 4,750 Disciples of Prabhupada Active In ISKCON with Reference to Sriman Pradyuma’s Courageous Warning of 1978
Anyone who joined the Hare Krishna Movement in the 60's or 70's knows how integral His Grace Sriman Pradyumna Prabhu was as part of Srila Prabhupada's travelling party and as Sanskrit editor. They were inseparable. Pradyumna was entrusted with a tremendous responsibility, to compete the Srimad Bhagavatam, until a few overly-ambitious godbrothers, some of whom are gurus worshiped today, appeared on the scene to drive him away. This history is not includrd in todays “Disciples’ Course “
Pradyumna Prabhu's voice can be heard leading the recitation of the Sanskrit at the beginning of most Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavatam, Nectar of Devotion and other classes. It is completely fitting that Srila Prabhupada chose him to complete the rest of the Srimad Bhagavatm, under the guidance of Srila Prabhupada's godbrother , Srila Bhakti Rakshak
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      Srila Gour Govinda Swami Thakura, 1978


We set out from Bhubaneswara early, taking bicycle rickshaw to the bus station. While waiting to board, Gour Govinda Swami explained to me the qualities of certain round white sweet balls which I had noted, displayed behind glass cases there. "These are a specialty of Bhubaneswara", he explained, "They cook sugar with cardamon, camphor, ghee, and black pepper, until it is well done and very hard. Very tasty, very sweet !"  He smiled with an exclamation. Maharajah did not eat many sweets, or very rarely, neither did we have them about the ashrama much, and we had no taste for sweets shopping that early . 

When I moved into the ashrama from Canada, after a while, I started to purchase ocasional  white-cardboard boxes of milk-sweets, in town.  It was too much to ask to live so frugally, essentially, and not spend any money on at least some occasional milk products, I thought to myself. For  a Western devotee, though used to Iskcon austerity,

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