Surviving Three Heart Attacks and Paralysis

0:00Prabhupāda: It was heart attack. Hari-śauri: Yeah.

Health challenges and spiritual recovery

0:05Otherwise I could not understand. So I passed through third heart attacks. One, two, three. They say that anyone who gets heart attack, the third attack, he must expire. Heart attack.

0:26Hari-śauri: You had three attacks on the ship. Two. Hari-śauri: Oh. And then one when you got to... New York. Third one—paralyzed. Hari-śauri: Very bad one. Left side paralyzed. I do not know how we were saved.

0:46Hari-śauri: [chuckles] Kṛṣṇa. And one girl, that captain's wife, she studied astrology. She was...

1:06She said, "Swāmījī, if you can survive your seventieth year, then you'll live for one hundred years." [Hari-śauri laughs] So, somehow or other, I survived my seventieth year.

1:22I do not know whether I shall live for hundred years, but seventieth year was severe—three heart attacks and paralysis. Hari-śauri: All in the same year. Then without any family.

Dependence on Krishna and prasadam

1:45At that time none of you were with me. I was alone. I was completely dependent on anyone. Hari-śauri: Kṛṣṇa. But on the ship I saw that "Kṛṣṇa is with me." I was going for this reas... [someone enters] Hare Kṛṣṇa.

2:22So they are not here, some prasāda to eat? Hari-śauri: There's a little extra. He can take some. They'll all be eating Jagannātha prasādam. We shall be eating also. No? No? Jagannātha prasādam?

2:43Hari-śauri: Well, he was going to cook. Which is better, eh? Jagannātha? Hari-śauri: [laughs] I don't know. Whatever you like. At least, if we cook here, you'll get hot prasādam. A little Jagannātha prasādam also.

2:58Hari-śauri: Yes. They can bring some.

Travel routes and global politics

3:06I traveled for a month myself on a boat. I went from England to Australia on ship. One month? Only? Hari-śauri: Twenty-eight days. Hmm. Through Atlantic. Hari-śauri: Yes.

3:20We had to go Atlantic and then right round the tip of Africa and across the Indian Ocean, because the Suez Canal was finished then. It was blocked by the war. Suez Canal still not open? Hari-śauri: No.

3:37What they have done, these...? They were getting, minimum, fifty thousand rupees daily. Hari-śauri: Oh, at least. So what, these nonsense politicians? They lost the money, and inconvenience to others.

4:01These rascal politician, they can do anything whimsical. They were getting money, not less than fifty thousand, not smaller than daily fifty thousand. From business point of view they could have raised the toll.

4:37They could get more money. What is the use of stopping? Hari-śauri: Well, they raised the price of oil instead. Eh? Hari-śauri: They raised the price of oil instead.

Observations on desert living conditions

5:08[laughs]

5:08Muhammadan... Brain fag. And they are thieves. The captains said that they are all thieves, these Egyptians. Hari-śauri: Arabs. Arabs. Vast desert we saw, passing. Huge stack of sand. How they are living there?

5:38Hari-śauri: Certainly not for a civilized man. [pause] This stove is our? Hari-śauri: It's Gargamuni's. [break] [end]