Finally, we came to Bombay and Prabhupada happened to be there, and there was one life member who knew me from before and was donating some property in Hyderabad. Prabhupada very much needed somebody to manage the temple in Hyderabad. I was enjoying my sannyasa, traveling and preaching; I even had plans now to go to the West and go temple to temple. So when I went to see Prabhupada, he said, “So Sridhar Maharaja, you will go to Hyderabad to be the president there.” I said, “But, Prabhupada, I was just planning to go traveling and preaching.” Prabhupada didn’t say anything; he just looked at me. Then afterwards I felt very bad that Prabhupada had asked me to do something and I refused. So the next day I went back and said, “Prabhupada, should I go to Hyderabad?” He said, “Yes, you go.”

Told by ISKCON’s Sridhara Swami from “The Jolly Swami” by Adbhuta Hari Dasa