“Oh, yes,” Akshayananda replied. “He was happy. And she was also happy.”
“Who?”
“Gosai Ma.”
“Oh, yes,” Prabhupada said, remembering Gaur Chand’s wife. “She was very kind upon me.”
I too am looking forward to the visit. I have never been to Radha-Damodara temple with Srila Prabhupada. It’s always enlivening and informative to visit places of his former pastimes with him. I asked when the last time was that he was there. He thought a moment and said, “1972.”
I thought of another of his old residences, the place he lived in before moving to the Radha-Damodara temple. “What about that Kesi-ghata?”
“Oh,” Prabhupada smiled, suddenly remembering it, and he brightly suggested, “We can go someday.” He recalled his early days there. “When I first came in Vrindavana I stayed in the Kesi-ghata. That is very palatial building. My room was as big as this. Yes, as big. Plus one side room, plus one entrance room. I was paying fifteen rupees. And I could see whole Vrindavana, Yamuna, from the top of my house. It is very nice, very palatial.”
I had heard about it, and the prospect of visiting it with Prabhupada sounded exciting, but I didn’t know where it was, so Prabhupada explained that it is just on the corner of the road to Kesi-ghata as it bends around the Maharaja of Bharatpura’s huge palace.
