As Abhay grew up he became more and more devoted to the Deity form of the Lord. “The Deity was so beautiful, with His slanted eyes”. Where young Abhay was seen to be stood for many long hours offering prayers before the Deity. He often used to take young Abhay to the local Shri Radha-Govinda temple. Gour Mohan De was also a pure hearted Vaisnava.
His mother however, hired a man to escort young Abhay daily to school. When young Abhay had been unwilling to go to school, his father saw the humour in it, and always treated him kindly, and was lenient. It is noteworthy that in that very same year, 1896, Shrila Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s book was accepted into McGill University in Canada, a pilot light for preaching in the West. The astrologer made a specific prediction: When this child reaches the age of seventy, he would cross the ocean, become a great exponent of religion, and open 108 temples. His parents in accordance with Bengali tradition, employed an astrologer to calculate the child’s horoscope, and they were made jubilant by the auspicious reading. His father was Gour Mohan De, a cloth merchant, and his mother was Rajani. Shrila Prabhupada appearance day Shrila Prabhupada was born Abhay Charan De on September 1st 1896 in Calcutta, India. (Srila Prabhupada Lecture, Seattle, October 18, 1968) Otherwise, everything is supplied, complete, complete set of machine you have got within you. The repairing process is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. You can see, you can hear, you can talk, provided you have got the machine. It is not you have to purchase one machine, or television set. Here is a television box within your heart. Simply you have to prepare your eyes, your mind in that way. This is stated in Brahma-saṁhitā, premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena. Just like thousands and thousands miles away you can transfer the television picture or your radio sound, similarly, if you can prepare yourself, then you can see always Govinda. So, premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti (Bs. Especially in this scientific age, when television, radio messages are broadcast thousands and thousands of miles away, and you can hear, now why can you…? Why Kṛṣṇa cannot hear your prayer, sincere prayer? How can you say? Nobody can deny it. So this sound, govindam adi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi, is reaching Him. So we are worshiping Govindam, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the original person.
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