#prabhupada early days father blessings

Srila Prabhupada: Generally, yes. They get the opportunity of being trained by the mother and father. Fortunately, my father was a great devotee, so I received this training from the very beginning. Somehow or other we had this spark of Krsna consciousness, and our father detected it. Then I accepted my spiritual master. In this way I have come to this stage of sannyasa. I am very much indebted to my father, for he took care of me in such a way that I became perfectly Krsna conscious. My father used to receive many saintly persons at our home, and to every one of them he used to say, "Kindly bless my son so that he may become a servant of Radharani." That was his only ambition. He taught me how to play the mrdahga, but my mother was not very satisfied. She would say, "Why are you teaching him to play mrdahga?" But my father would say, ''No, no, he must learn a little mrdahga." My father was very affectionate to me. He never chastised me. Therefore, if by his past pious activities one gets a good father and mother, that is a great chance for advancing in Krsna consciousness.    (More...)