Its Your Decision Now

The 100th birth anniversary of Srila Prabhupāda- the centennial festival brought crowds of devotees from all over the world to Prabhupāda house, Delhi. Gurumaharaj being the president of the festival had his office East of Kailash temple which was managed by HG Prashanta Mataji. Various devotees assisted Gurumaharaj in the arrangements and one of them was Bhakta Harish from Pune, Maharashtra, he never spoke a single word before finishing his rounds for the day. Because of living with devotees for a long, he developed an affection for them yet he started finding faults in the devotees and showed them their faults with hands joined in a humble manner. His fault-finding attitude troubled devotees and they were unable to do their services properly. They went to Gurumaharaj and said “Either Harish prabhuji will stay or We will stay, it's your decision now"

Gurumaharaj with a calm smile said  “the way you all come to do service here Harish prabhuji has also come. I personally couldn’t focus on each one of you and on the mistakes you are doing and I don’t have enough time too to do this. Its mercy of the lord that Harish prabhuji is finding shortcomings in your life so that you could become more intense in your bhakti and progress more with determination and dedication”.

Seeing that even in the fault-finding nature of Harish Prabhu Gurumaharaj saw the good, everyone was shocked. Quoting Sri Tukaram Maharaj Gurumaharaj said "people who correct us should always be kept near as they are beneficial for our progress in bhakti"