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my friend and older wellwisher Dear Prabhus ,Maharajas and Matajis
Please accept my humble obaisences
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
What a fortune for me to have met and served with Tribhuvanatha Prabhu.He was a true sadhu and friendly to all and liked by all.I remember when he picked me up in Dublin airport and took me in his wolkswagen bus to the temple.I have so many great memories about him.In the morning he would take a tambura and start to sing the samsara prayers, in a sweet voice soon the tired brahmacaries
would dance and laugh.Dame Street in Dublin,he loved Harinamas,and could go on for hours without getting tired.He held wonderfull festivals all over UK and Ireland and engaged thousands of people in chanting, and they never forgot those festivals, you always meet someone that has been to one of the festivals Tribuvanath prabhu organized.
If there was some politics he always had his KC opinion that was right on, or he just totaly avoided issues and just prefered to be everyones
friend.He had a dear friend and admirer with him always Giridhari Prabhu.Untill the last I understand,it must be really hard for him,I feel for you Giridhari Prabhu,you have a hard of gold.
I remember Tribuvanatha selling books there in Dublin he did ok and tired his best though he had not sold books on the street properly in some time or years.But his enthusiasm with whatever he did was contatigious.He send some brahmacaries to Cork where we where selling books, and though the party was a bit disorganized we had fun under his
direction.I served there as a sankirtana leader and he always appriciated devotees preaching and selling Prabhupadas books, he would inspire devotees by telling them stories about Srila Prabhupada.He told me that Prabhupada had once been very concerned when he was temple president of the Manor that sankirtana devotees and ohter devotees where not reading his books enough.
He also told us the story about the temple in Edinburg,Scotland.Srila Prabhupada had choosen
a Gilette blade over a Wilkinson blade for shaving,
calling the Wilkinson blade for "Simply Bhogus".
I am sure someone has told that story in more details.
Sometimes he would fall asleep in his chair and sit there all night sleeping with the Bhagavatam next to him.I gently woke him up and asked him if he would not be more comfortabel sleeping lying down.He would thank me or one time he said that what ever way you sleep it is a waste of time as sleep is like being dead.
HE is certainly not dead, becasue great devotees don't die, they go to Krsna,and I am sure that is where Tribuvantha is now,with Srila Prabhupada assisting Srila Prabhupada in his eternal service to Krsna.Lets me bow down to him and beg for his mercy to also be abel to enter Krsna's nitya lilas
by Payonidhi dasa (Narasimha4@aol.com)
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