There was news that he was either going to come to London or somewhere else. Like San Francisco or New York or somewhere else that was going to have a Ratha-yatra. And so every day we would hear “yeah he is going to come here.”

And then the next day we would be disappointed, “no he is going to go there.” You know it was this up and down thing [chuckles] every day it was different. And so it was like we were thinking well if we have enough devotion he will come here. You know everyone was in that consciousness, if we have enough devotion and pray hard enough that he will come here. But then he didn’t come you know everyone was real disappointed and we were thinking that it was because we didn’t have enough devotion. But it was a real nice Ratha-yatra. But Prabhupada came later he was in London that year for Janmastami and Vyasa-puja. So he must have come you know a month later. And I remember seeing Prabhupada. I was shocked he was in bad health, you know he looked really different. He was in really bad health and he didn’t come and give class at all, hardly. But he managed to. He came into the temple room on Janmastami evening. No Vyasa-puja evening and gave a lecture. I remember some of the things he said in that lecture. He was talking a lot about hippies. How much he had compassion for the hippies. He used to talk about the hippies a lot. How he had so much compassion on these hippies they were confused and dissatisfied and how that was actually the first qualification for taking up spiritual life. To be dissatisfied with material life and then he said something really interesting. He said, he said “actually Krsna created this class of hippies.” He said “Krsna created the hippies as a class of men from which to draw devotees.” He said that. And we can actually, we can see you know most of the, really devotees did come from that hippie class of men.

And then another funny [chuckles] thing that happened. There was this big gang of Indian people that were sitting right in front of Prabhupada’s vyasasana while he was giving that lecture. And they kept you know talking to each other during the lecture, making a lot of noise you know. Like it was a real disturbing everyone. But none of the devotees knew what to do. Should we tell them to be quiet, we didn’t want to offend them. They were sitting like right in front of the vyasasana making a lot.. And then right.. All of a sudden right in the middle of the lecture they started to leave, you know like they one by one they like stood up and they had to climb over all these people. It was the old Bury Place temple, it was real small temple room. For to get out they had to climb, make a big disturbance. One by one you know it was a big [chuckles].

Right in the middle of the lecture got up and started to leave. And each time it caused such a disturbance. Finally Prabhupada just stopped speaking and waited until they all just sort of filed out and then after they were all gone he said, he said “just see.” He said “you cannot bring in dogs and cats and expect them to sit and listen” [chuckles] and then he just went on with his talk. But I remember those two things from that lecture.