Guava Jam

(dandavats.com) – Urvasi devi dasi: I was serving at the Montreal temple, Canada, and there were a lot of devotees going to India; and before we left, I went back home to Los Angeles, where my parents live, to give them a visit. As I was leaving there, my mother asked me out of the blue, she said, “Is there something I can give to you to take to your spiritual master?”

I was really taken aback by that question and I said, “Oh, that’s so nice.” I said, “I don’t know. What would you like to give him?” She said, “I could make him some guava jam,” because we had fruit trees at the property. So I told her that would be really nice. So she made the guava jam, and she wrote on there “For Srila Prabhupada.”

When I was in Vrindavan, I went up to Srila Prabhupada’s quarters and handed it through to one of his servants and that was that. Then I found out for two days that Prabhupada’s servant was looking for me. He had remembered what I looked like, but he didn’t know my name.

Finally he found me, and he said that Srila Prabhupada really loved the jam and he wanted my mother’s name and address because Srila Prabhupada wanted to write her a thank you letter. There it was, all these devotees, huge event, the opening of the temple, the installation of the Deities, and Srila Prabhupada was so concerned to write a thank you letter.