Prabhupada's Childhood Memories

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[srila Prabhupada Conversation with Dai Nippon Representatives, April 22, 1972, Tokyo]

"I remember my childhood body. My babyhood body also, I remember, particularly.

When I was about six months old, I still remember very vividly, I was lying

down on the lap of my eldest sister, and she was knitting. I remember still.

Yes, six months. I remember when I was only about one year old, there was a

great sankirtana in our house and I also joined the dancing party. And I was

seeing up to their knees, very small. So I remember those days. And then after

that, I was a boy. I was very much fond of cycling. So many things. Yes. So

many dangers, so many adventures. Now I am old man. So all those different

stages of body, I remember. But these bodies are not existing. So similarly, I

remember or forget, but I was in different types of body--that's a fact. So

similarly, after leaving this body, I will have another body. That is natural

conclusion. "

[s.P. Conversation with Dai Nippon, April 22, 1972, Tokyo]

In my childhood, when I was three, four years old, I was saved. My all cloth

burned, and there is a scar. You have seen. I would have died that day, but

fortunately I was saved. The cloth was burning. That, what is that called,

matches color? So I was trying to burn, and it caught my cloth. So the cloth

burned, but I did not burn. Similarly, this body also burns, but the soul...

Nainam chindanti sastrani na dahati pavakah. The soul is never cut into pieces

by any weapon, neither it is burned by the fire, soul. That is eternity.

Anything material, it will burn, it will be cut into pieces, it can be dried

up, it can be moistened.

[srimad-Bhagavatam Lecture, 1.8.30, Mayapura, October 10,

1974]http://www.prabhupada.org.uk/childhood.htm