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sitproperly on Sep 5th 2007 at 10:14 am Gaudia Vaisnava, Motorscooters

The Bajaj connection to Srila Prabhupada

When I got my VW Bus, I wanted to see if Prabhupada ever said anything about VW Buses. Well, it turns out that he did. The devotees were buying a lot of them in Germany to use for traveling. They told Srila Prabhupada about it and he said that they should buy more because “The VW Buses are very nice.” Yay! Also, the first vehicle that Srila Prabhupada rode in when he came to the states was a VW Bus.

On November 2nd 1977, just twelve days before his disappearance lila, Srila Prabhupada was asked privately by some Indian guests who would succeed him as acarya. He described his answer moments later to his disciples (emphasis mine):

    Prabhupada: “[They asked] …after you, who will take the leadership?” And [I replied] “Everyone will take, all my disciples. If you want, you can take also. (laughter) But if you follow. They are prepared to sacrifice everything, so they’ll take the leadership. I may, one, go away, but there will be hundreds, and they’ll preach. If you want, you can also become a leader. We have no such thing as ‘Here is leader’.” Anyone who follows the previous leadership, he’s a leader. ‘Indian,’ we have no such distinction, ‘Indian,’ ‘European.’ ”

    Brahmananda: “They wanted an Indian to be the leader?”

    Prabhupada: “Yes. (laughs) ‘Everyone, all my disciples, they are leaders. If you want to follow, you can become a leader. You are Indian. But you don’t want.’ I told them that.”

Incidentally, the questioner was ‘Mr Baja’, the owner of Baja Scooters, India. He wanted to known if Srila Prabhupada was going to appoint a successor.

There is no such thing as Baja Scooters, of course. It was a typo or misunderstanding. It was Mr. Bajaj, head of Bajaj Scooters. The maker of my Bajaj Chetak.

Nifty, huh?

Oh yes.



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