(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Leicester, UK, May 2011) Initiation Lecture
Srila Prabhupada tirelessly travelled around the world. In eleven years, he went fourteen times around the world! At one point Srila Prabhupada was in New York, and he had a cold whilst being there. And one can hear it in the lectures! One can hear that Prabhupada has a real cold and the devotees were saying:
“Oh Srila Prabhupada, just stay here for a few days”.
And Prabhupada said:
“No I have to go to London, in England.”
They said:
“Don’t go, just stay here!”
And Prabhupada said:
“No, I have to go”.
“Srila Prabhupada, It’s not important, just stay here!”
Prabhupada said:
“Oh, it is not important. If I don’t go, then who will maintain these devotees in their spiritual life? If I don’t travel around the world, then who will maintain all these devotees in their spiritual life?”
So Srila Prabhupada indeed was travelling tirelessly in his old age to keep his devotees inspired! So the spiritual master is certainly having that purpose in mind, to somehow or other inspire his disciples…………..So the spiritual master (as Prabhupada did) is travelling around the world to support his disciples and inspire them!
