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story told by Sri Nathji Prabhu :_*
*""If Prabhupada wants me to drive faster, I will drive faster."

Sri Nathji: The twenty-eighth of September 1977 was a very sad day. At about 4:30 in the morning I got a phone call from Giriraj Swami.
Crying, he said, "I want you to bring your big Dodge car." I had a huge American car with a back seat long enough to lie down in.
Giriraj Swami said, "Prabhupada wants to leave his body." I said, "What?" I had never heard anybody say that someone "wanted to leave his body."
It sounded as if he wanted to commit suicide. I said, "What do you mean, 'Prabhupada wants to leave his body?' Where does he want to leave his body?"
He said, "He wants to go to Vrindavan, and he's leaving his body. He's going away, and we have to take him to the train station."
By that time Prabhupada hadn't eaten for nearly six months. He was living only on juice and charanamrita, and his body was depleted.
He had hardly any muscles, and his veins were pressing on his bones. It was

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Nondevotee; hastled endlessly by corrupt demons, eventually wants to escape material existence, takes to devotional service imitation

Neophyte; Wants to find liberation, therefore starts to build an internal dream world of "service", composed of pretty pictures of Sri Krsna and endless repeated ritual. Thinking themselves now advanced compared to the "karmis", they criticize real and advanced devotees, saying, "oh, they are involved with politics and everything (I am rightly running away from like a scared rabbit), those prabhus are in maya!"

Advanced devotee; Realizing that they are eternal servants of Radha Krsna, now, no matter where they are, they are actually doing something REAL in THIS LIFE HERE AND NOW, as best they can, to fix things, as desired by Sri Gurudeva, including fielding insults from neophytes who say the actual devotees are in maya for fighting to the very death to fix things. An advanced devotee is Krsna conscious, and at the same time is

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