Hari Sauri : On January 17, 1976, Srila Prabhupada started from Calcutta to Mayapur. Two hours later and seven kilometers before the town of Ranaghata our party stopped to take breakfast in a large grove of several hundred mango trees. The grove has become a regular resting point for Srila Prabhupada whenever he goes to Mayapur. Seated on a folded chaddar on the leaf-strewn grass, with the spreading arms of the huge trees forming a pleasant canopy above, Prabhupada seemed completely at ease in the natural setting.
We had brought various fruits, bada, fried cashew nuts, and sweets. The sannyasis sat in a row alongside His Divine Grace, while Chaitya-guru and I served the prasadam out on leaf plates. After a relaxed half an hour, hands and mouths washed, we proceeded on to our destination, the birthplace of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
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