At the end of eveery lecture, SP would recite the verse
Bhaktisidhanta story by Prabhodananda Sarasvati from the Caitanya
So we should honor this tithi very respectfully and pray
to Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami that “We are
engaged in your service. So give us strength, give us
intelligence. And we are being guided by your servant.”
So in this way we have to pray.
"Brahmanas are like paisa and Vaishnavas are like
rupees. In one rupee there are 64 paisa. the brahmanatra
or the position of being a brahmana is included in
Sarasvati Thakura said, "There are sixty theories I do
not like in India," and he then gave a list of sixty
prominent theories at that time. He wrote an article,
"Sampradayik Samanyata" in Bastam Parliament, which
used the idea of a court to test all these different
theories. There was the defendant and there was the
pleader? He gave Manu and Vyasa the roles of Chief
Justices, and Smarta Raghunandana was the opposition
pleader, etc.
Sarasvati Thakura was fond of speaking to the educated
class of people. He didn't generally speak in mass
meetings of less-educated people, but was very fond of
distributing prasadam to village people and such types.
The Gaudiya Math would arrange some prasadam
distribution, and he would go amongst the people when
they were taking prasadam and say, "Oh, are you taking
prasadam. Have you taken to your satisfaction? Are you
getting enough? Is it cooked nicely? Are you enjoying
nicely? etc." Sometimes he would also lecture amongst
the masses, but his language was not understandable by
them. It was an unusual language and no one else spoke
The Jata Gosais and Brijbasis had the practice of giving
manjari svarupa and a manjari name at the time of
initiation. Form the very beginning, their initiates
would claim to have understood their position as a
manjari (intimate gopi assistant of Srimati Radharani).
Sarasvati Thakura did not approve of such a process
and would say, "First chant the name of Gauranga.
After getting the mercy of Lord Caitanya there will be
anartha nivritti. Then there is the possibility of artha
pravriti. Anartha nivritti means to get rid of all the bad
things in the heart, and artha pravriti means to enter
into, or develop ones actual goal of life. Those who do
not obey Caitanya Mahaprabhu, their claims of being
manjaris and their worship of Radharani is all false." He
wrote "Prakrta Rasa Satadusani - One hundred faults of
the prakrta sahajiyas".
6/22/70 Prabhupad Letter: "One of our Godbrothers was
chanting in a solitary place without any responsibility
for preaching work, and my spiritual master was not
very satisfied with him."
On Ekadasi, some devotees remained in the Math,
fasting, but one sannyasi, Ashram Maharaja, took
Ekadasi prasadam and went out preaching. Sarasvati
Thakura commented on this, saying, "He has
understood the principle of the Gaudiya Math."
Candramrta, in which he says, "Taking a straw in my
mouth, I go to you, and though you are a very
wonderful person, I request you to please give up all
your nonsense ideas and just take shelter of Lord
Caitanya."
dante nidhaya trnakam padayor nipatya
krtva ca kaku-satam etad aham bravimi
he sadhavah sakalam eva vihaya durad
caitanya-candra-carane kurutanuragam
I take a straw in my mouth. I fall down at your feet and
flatter you. O sir, you are such a great and intelligent
man. There is no one greater than you. You are so
intelligent, rich, and beautiful. You may ask, "Why are
you so humble? Why are you flattering me? What is
your intention? Tell me." O you are a great sadhu.
You have learned so many nice things, I know, but kick
them out, please. Whatever nonsense rascaldom you
have learned, whatever hogwash things are in your
brain, kick them all out. Throw them all far away and
place all your love in the lotus feet of Lord Gauranga.
His dietry habits were typically Bengali: 7.00am - a
light breakfast (a little halava or a sweet) and full
prasadam at 11.00am, the basis of which was a large
amount of rice with spinach and other vegetable
preperations. He always took green papaya, cooked
with water and blended untill it became like soup. This
was good for the liver and digestion. He would also
take a little lime with his meal.
At night he would take puris and potatoes cut into
squares and fried (a typical Bengali preperation), with
milk (lightly sweetened with a little sugar) at 8.30 -
9.00pm. In the afternoon he liked to take lemon sharbet,
which is a sweet lemon water drink with sugar, or cool,
dark (young/raw) coconut (dab).
In his prasadam he liked a lot of salt, which made
taking his remnants difficult.
He was fond of sajana (drumsticks), soft and young(?)
Sajana is one kind of vegetable. He also liked chick-
peas, fried with hing and salt, and food cooked in cow's
ghee or sesame oil.
He was very fond of hing; especially peanutsfried with
a lot of salt and hing. He was very fond of sweets, and
especially liked the Bagbazaar rasgullas. But at the age
of 53 he stopped taking these sweets as it was
troublesome for his teeth as they were becoming
affected. He also liked sweet samosas.
SP liked Dhaka kicherie, which they cooked usually in
a big brass pot with many vegetables mixed in it. That
Dhaka kicherie is also very liquidy with a lot of water.
He liked rasam very much,
When Jagannatha maha prasada would come he would
circumambulate three times and then offer full
dandavats.
For Braja mandala parikrama he had two camels
purchased for taking the loads from one place to
another. They also had one elephant called Kirtan Das,
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which was donated by Janaki Nath Bosh, the father of
Subash Candra Bosh. Janaki Nath Bosh went on the
Navadvipa parikrama and Braja mandala parikrama.
They brought him from Bengal to Vrndavan by train.

The devotees used to say that there were two things that
were very sweet: Prabhupader dahl and Prabhupader
gal. Dahl means the dahl prasadam left by SP (his
remnants), and gal means SP's chastizement.

One time, one brahmacari was sleeping during a lecture

so SP said to throw him in Radha kund, in Mayapur
Caitanya Math. "My guru and all the acharyas are here,
so why do you embarass me by sleeping?" he said.

In the Math in Cuttak, there wa a nice pond. Sometimes

people would come to catch the fish there, because
there were many fish in that pond, and in Orissa, as in
Bengal, the eating of fish is very common. SP saw one
man coming with a rod for catching the fish and he
said, "This pond is non-different from the Yamuna. Do
not kill the fish!" This particular man was cautioned
again and again by SP but still he came. Because of
disobeying SP's order he was bitten by a snake while
fishing, and died.

In Vrndavan, early in 1935, he wrote a letter, saying

that, "I have to stay in this world ten years more, but
now I am going. The internal struggle in the Gaudiya
Math is too much. They don't want me in this world!"
In the last one or two years he became very critical of
materially motivated devotees, especially Bon
Maharaja, who was sent to London to preach, but
started a Hindu Mission there.