 | One day, in Montreal in the summer of 1968 I went into Srila Prabhupada's room and he wasn't there. Needless to say this was very unusual. I checked he wasn't in any other part of the apartment and it was early afternoon, so I became completely complexed because it wasn't his habit to get up and leave or go anywhere. I went running out into the street to see where he had gone but I didn't see him anywhere. I was becoming very concerned, so I ran down to the corner to see if I could see him in any direction and there he was, perhaps a block or so down the street, he had already turned the corner and he was walking somewhere, alone. So I went running down the street and caught up with him. As I was very shocked and I was trying to find out where he was going, what was going on, why he had gotten up and left the house. When I caught up with him I was out of breath and laughed when he saw me, and I asked him: "Where are you going? What's going on? Why have you left?" He smiled and chuckled and said: "Oh, I am just going to the bank. It is all right. I will be all right". I asked him: "Srila Prabhupada, do you want to go alone? Shall I get Gaurasundara to go with you? Will you be OK?" He said: "Yes, yes, I will be all right, I will go alone". So I let him proceed and go alone and I went back to the house. He was not in the habit of going to places alone, especially at that time. This was after all after his stroke. So he would take rest and we would take care of all of his errands for him. Generally he would have Gaurasundara do the banking and of course we took care of grocery shopping and everything. The only time he went out was for some excursion or his morning walk or to the temple in the evenings, so I was a little perplexed by this but perhaps he felt that he wanted to take a walk out that day. I do have one photograph of him as he is coming out of the bank in Montreal. Gaurasundara took of him that day since he didn't usually go to the bank by himself. Gaurasundara found him there and walked with him back to our house. Thank you, Srila Prabhupada for giving us the opportunity to care for you. Although you didn't really us at all, certainly we thought that you did and therefore our full focus was on serving you, taking care of you and protecting you, watching out for your health, and watching out for any problem that might erase or for any errands that you needed to have done. Thank you for giving us that opportunity. We know that you can actually do everything yourself but by Krsna's grace for our benefit you allowed us to be engaged in your service. Thank you.
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