Rose Forkash: I felt comfortable with him. Sometimes if people see a movie star, they would be in awe. But Prabhupada didn’t make you feel that way. He never acted as if he felt, “I’m so important.” He didn’t give that impression. He was a bearer of information. He was delivering information and he did it in such a calm way that wasn’t frightening.
It was informational like, “I have something to tell you and I think you will be interested in hearing this.” I do remember when he walked out of the temple after a lecture one day and the devotees were eager to pay their obeisances to him. They all scrambled to get down and he motioned with his hands, “Get up, get up, get up,” as if to say, “That’s not necessary.“
Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint – Volume 4 by Rose Forkash
