My son has joined the Hare Krishna movement!
Dvaipayana das : Originally, my family lived in Melbourne. So I rang up my father and told him, "My spiritual master is coming to Melbourne on such-and-such a day and it would be really good if you could come and see him," and he did. He came that day and saw Prabhupada. He came along there and merged with the crowd and listened to Prabhupada. Although he was a fairly serious Christian himself, he was very pleased to come along and he had nothing but words of praise for Prabhupada. He'd always supported me becoming a devotee, having years earlier dropped out of university and become a hippie hitchhiking around the country. And every time I'd come home I'd be onto some different kind of trip and I'd rap to him about it. But when I actually committed myself to fully participate and join the Hare Krishna movement, he was very happy and supportive of that. I found out some years after I'd been a devotee that he was involved in some inter-Pacific conference about religious toleration because I found a printout of the conference when I was a devotee in the temple. I didn't even know about it when it was happening. But he got up in front of everyone and said, "My son has joined the Hare Krishna movement. It isn't my beliefs, but still I fully support him to be involved in it and I think it's a good thing." My father was a schoolteacher. He was teaching in a grammar school, I think it was a Church of England school. But still, after the new temple was opened in Melbourne in Middle Park with the beautiful Radha-Vallabha and Gaura-Nitai and Jagannatha Deities, he organized an excursion from the school every year to come visit the temple, have darshan of the Deities and have prasadam; and he did that for many, many years.
Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada – Remembrances by Yadubara dasa
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