(11:02) I have a lot of experience with Tamal Krishna Maharaja and knowing just how much and how responsible he was, how trusted he was by Srila Prabupada and I can tell you that because he was so responsible he was a natural leader and so when Prabhupada left, and I mean I was in the room looking at Prabhupada’s face when he left, and it was so devastating all the devotees were just.. I don’t know if I can’t explain it. other devotees have written down, who were more eloquently than I can explain it., but one thing for sure was nobody was capable of thinking what to do but Tamal Krishna Maharaja kept himself together cause he knew that someone had to lead the devotees through that time but when we took Prabhupada the next morning around Vrindaban on hid palanquin and Tamal Krishna Maharaja was right next to it and I was very close to him the whole way and tears were coming out of his eyes so powerfully he had to take off his glasses the tears would knock the glasses off his face. It not possible according to sastra, these were spiritual tears no doubt so to think that he or Bhakti Charu Maharaja ,or Bhavananda Maharaja or anybody who was there serving him in loving ways would poison Prabhupada at that time .. it’s inconceivable. I mean while I was there they would talk about poison, because,.. I don’t mean to say it was in a joking way but the medicine that they had a very hard time finding. the makadwjaja, ayurvedic medicine and it had arsenic in it you know, and it had other things in it gold and very powerful medicine and very strong and when he first started taking it, it was under the direction of the kaviraja and I don’t remember the details but there was some problem with his motions when he just took and then he would say it was too strong and it was back and forth and back and forth… like I said I wasn’t in any of the conversations so I can’t say any of the details about what happened at that time, but ahh… as far as the person the disciples purposely poisoned him, to murder him, that’s not possible. In my mind that is not possible. I don’t know what more I can say than that it’s so obvious. Anybody who was there, I don’t know who you are interviewing but anybody who was there, they could not have seen anything else but how much love and affection was going on between Prabhupad and his disciples who were there. Hare Krishna.
