Havi das: When Prabhupada arrived in Caracas, we were extremely happy. We greeted him with flowers. We escorted him to his vyasasan, and I had the task to wash his feet. Nobody had instructed me how to do this. I just saw the ingredients, the yogurt and the milk and the ghee and honey and so on and water. So I concluded that I should go from thick to thin, and I started with the honey. The first thing I did was I took Prabhupada’s socks off and I touched his feet and it was really, really soft. This is the softest skin I have ever touched. I started to pour the honey and then the yogurt and then the ghee and milk, like that. Then I started to massage his feet, even between his toes. Consciously I wanted to alleviate his tensions, but that was not accepted. Nitai prabhu and Paramahamsa and other devotees were shouting at me, “Havi, Havi, what are you doing?” This is not what I was supposed to do. I was a little afraid that I was committing some offense or some mistake and I slowly lifted my head towards Srila Prabhupada, and Srila Prabhupada nodded his head as if to say, “You go on, you go on, no problem.” In any case, all the ingredients were there in this stainless steel bowl, and I started to spray everybody with caranamrita, with this nectar of Prabhupada’s feet. Everybody was in ecstasy. We were jumping up and down. I did four or five rounds of this, everybody was practically wet, and I took the remnants to the kitchen. Then a wild idea came into my mind and I drank the whole thing, two glasses of that blessed liquid. I remember I jumped up and down just by myself at the kitchen, nobody saw me. I was the happiest soul alive.
Reference: Remembrances by Yadubara Das- Folio Vedabase
