On one special day, Harikesa asked me to help to him cook and serve Srila Prabhupada’s lunch. We made his lunch and served Srila Prabhupada his lunch in his room. The first thing he asked was to mash the potatoes with his bitter melon and I brought hot chapatis and cooked them. I served him his whole lunch and felt very good. That night I decided to make Srila Prabhupada some five vegetable samosas. I made a bunch of them. I sent them up to Srila Prabhupada. The next day Harikesa again asked me to help him cook lunch for Srila Prabhupada. An Indian cook had come before we got to the kitchen and cooked lunch for some special guests. Harikesa and myself still had to cook lunch for Srila Prabhupada. In the middle of our cooking Srila Prabhupada walked into the kitchen. On the right hand side of the kitchen all the preparations for Srila Prabhupada’s guests were laid out, including a big diamond shaped samosa. The five vegetarian samosas that I had made for Srila Prabhupada were called half-moon samosas and were quite large. Srila Prabhupada looked down at the plate of samosas that the Indian cook had made for his guests and looked at me and said. "You don’t know how to make samosas. You only know how to make footballs." Smiling he looked at Harikesa and myself and said, "You two always mess up everything," and walked out of the room smiling.

During a walk one morning, Srila Prabhupada asked me what was the matter with some of the Tulasi plants that were apparently dying. I told him that I would check into it further as to why they weren’t doing well. That same day after investigating the root systems, I discovered that ants and termites had infested the roots. Srila Prabhupada inquired the next day what the results were of my investigation. I told Srila Prabhupada that termites and ants were eating their roots. Srila Prabhupada then said, "You take one part lime and one part sulfur and mix that with ten parts water and sprinkle the mixture around Tulasi. This will drive the insects away." Shortly after Srila Prabhupada departed for his next world tour. During Srila Prabhupada’s absence I applied his formula immediately to get rid of the ants and termites. The infestation had advanced too far for the formula to work on time and unfortunately all of the Tulasi plants died.