Govinda: I had a special desire while painting that large Pancha Tattva picture. I desired that this painting of Lord Chaitanya and His Associates would be so spiritually beautiful, and so full of bhava, that Srila Prabhupada would be extremely pleased, so much so that he would even place his head at Lord Chaitanya’s Lotus Feet. I had never desired anything like this before, and I never told anyone of this inner desire.
Many years later, this desire was fulfilled. It was in the late 1970s. I was in Srila Prabhupada’s upstairs room at the Coelho Way temple in Honolulu. He was getting ready to leave for the airport. He was leaving Hawaii for some other preaching destination. The big Pancha Tattva painting was always hanging opposite his desk, so he could gaze at it while he worked. So he had to pass by it on the way to the door. Just when he came to the big painting, he paused, looked up at the merciful figures of Sri Pancha Tattva, then gracefully bent down to touch his head to Lord Chaitanya’s Lotus Feet. I was astounded. I did not say anything, but I remembered my desire. And now, my desire had been fulfilled.
And I knew he also knew that was my inner desire. He once wrote me a letter from India, saying, “I know your mind.” He knew everything within my mind and heart, and this was further proof of it.
Reference: A Transcendental Art – Govinda Dasi
courtesy;- https://www.srilaprabhupadalila.org/read/SPFPP_0280
