How Prabhupada looked ten days after his stroke

Gargamuni Dasa: So this, I wanted to show. Just so you get an idea, how Prabhupada looked ten days after his stroke. Remember now – he was paralyzed and blind in the left side. This is how he looked ten days after. Can you see it is a physical problem?

Usually, when there is a stroke, that’s worse than heart-attack. It’s called a brain aneurysm. There is always a side effect, speech or like Jayapataka, he has a physical problem on his mouth. Or you die. Every year, there is twenty-five million strokes in the world, but most of them die, and the balance you have problems. You see any problem? Complete recovery ten days after only. I don’t see any problem.

This is in the beach house. You can see it’s a little cool, although it’s June, which is hot here. In America it’s still a little cool, the breezes off the ocean. So Prabhupada had to wear a coat. It was very windy. But you can’t see any physical problem. That’s the miracle. This shows you that a pure devotee is never in a diseased condition. That his condition was a benefit for us to become attached to him more than just a teacher, but as our father, spiritual father. This is proof.

Later on in New York, the San Francisco devotees who Prabhupada went previously in 1967, it was the end of December he went. He went to San Francisco where Mukunda opened the center, and he stayed there till March. So Prabhupada, when he opened the center, he would stay three, four months. So they wanted Prabhupada to come to better weather in San Francisco, and Prabhupada went there. But actually, it was worse, that place where they had for him. There was no place to walk, and also he couldn’t go to the temple, and it was not very convenient for him there. It was a winding road, and Prabhupada would get dizzy. He was already dizzy from the stroke. That’s when he decided to go back to India because he still had problems inside. Because a stroke is a brain and aneurysm, and he felt pain in the brain. So he went back to India, and he came back about five months later.

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