Father Pierre - HH Indradyumna Maharaj

In my experience, how Prasadam was very effective in delivering somebody who I could now call a friend. In the very least, a friend. We, in the early 70s, we would travel in an old Volkswagen van. The color was like an orange color. And, you know, those vans, we put the books, we'd build a little box inside or from the back to the front, we would have just a floor. And under the floor, we would have all our books and a few. We only allowed to have a bag this big of our personal items. Traveling, we were all young men. I was still a grihastha, but the other boys were all brahmachari. We would all sleep in the vans at night. We'd travel and stop and, you know, seven sleeping bags. So like sardines in a can, you know, one boy would turn and all the other six boys would be obliged to turn. Like Prabhupada said, packed up tight in Krishna consciousness. We love the austerities. We were so happy traveling and preaching in our 20s, doing books. In the snow and the rain and the heat of...