Gargamuni: The photo is Radha-Govinda Thakur-Bati at Srila Prabhupada’s ancestral home Calcutta. These Deities were worshiped by him and his sister.
His Divine Grace states: I shall say practically, from my own life, I was fortunate to get my birth in a very pious family. Yes. My father was very pious man, and I wanted to imitate him in my childhood. Of course, our family was not very poor, but we were not very rich men. But my father was very pious man. So he was worshiping Krishna. So I, in my childhood, when I was five or six years old, I requested my father that, “Father, give me this Deity. I shall worship.” So father purchased for me little Krishna, Radha, and he gave me, and I was imitating. Whatever foodstuff I was getting, I was offering to Krishna and eating. In this way I got my life developed. And there was a temple in our neighborhood. So I was seeing the Krishna Deity. Oh, I was thinking many things. I still remember. I was standing for hours together. So in this way, practically we can understand that these facilities are given by the Lord. The Lord is always prepared to give us facility. Simply He wants to see that we are sincere. That’s all.
