Joshomatinandan: In Mayapur, 1977, Prabhupada had a fever so somebody was with him constantly. I was gently massaging him about two O’clock in the morning when he woke up and said, “These rascal scientists do not accept this. Go and preach to them, tell them that you are not the body, that you are a spirit soul, and the proof is that in this life the soul is transmigrating from childhood to youth to old age.” Prabhupada spoke philosophy at two thirty in the morning in the middle of a heavy fever, and after ten or fifteen minutes went back to sleep. He was dreaming about preaching and living for preaching.
Ref: Memories of Srila Prabhupada Tape 39

Atma Tattva: In 1977, Ravi das and I were in Kanpur distributing Back to Godhead magazines when we came to a little building with a Bengali signboard saying the marriage registration officer, Mr. Chatterjee, worked there. I told Ravi, “There’s a Bengali here so let’s try to give him a magazine.” We went up the narrow staircase to the third floor, and inside a first-class Bengali-looking apartment, with old paintings, a big bookshelf and an easy chair, there was Mr. Chatterjee. We greeted him and I gave him a Back to Godhead magazine. He said, “Do you know that when Prabhupada was distributing his Back to Godhead magazines, he stayed in this place?”Mr. Chatterjee showed us around the house, “This is where Prabhupada used to sit; this is where he used to cook.” There was a separate clothesline on the roof, and he said, “We never used this clothes line. Only Prabhupada’s clothes dried there.”

Then we sat in Mr. Chatterjee’s study and he brought me a brick-red edition of the Bhagavatam, signed by Prabhupada, which had some translations underlined about the Lord’s personal form. Mr. Chatterjee said that as a follower of the Arya-samaj he observed yajna performances and chanted Rig Veda verses but did not observe Deity worship. Prabhupada used to joke, “I know what you Arya-samajis do.

When you see a Vishnu temple, you make sure no one is looking at you, then you offer your obeisances and say to the Lord, I am sorry for offending You.” Mr. Chatterjee said that he told Prabhupada, “In public I have been following Arya-samaj and in private I have been worshiping the five murtis— Vishnu, Siva, Durga, Ganesh, and Surya. But I don’t get satisfaction from either of these processes.” For over an hour that day Prabhupada spoke to him about the personal and impersonal features of the Lord. Then later, after printing the Bhagavatam, Prabhupada came, underlined a certain translation, and gave the book to Mr. Chatterjee. Prabhupada said, “You are not experiencing satisfaction because you think the Lord is impersonal.” Mr. Chatterjee was moved and said, “Swami Maharaj didn’t return to Kanpur. But I became a personalist,” and he showed us the Radha-Krishna Deities in his study. He said, “After talking with Prabhupada I came back to our grandfather’s line. Now I am worshiping Radha and Krishna.” He said, “Prabhupada used to take my daughter on his lap and feed her the tomato rice he had cooked. She is here now with her children for the holidays.” He called his daughter, and she said, “Prabhupada told me, You should just take prasad. Don’t worry about anything that your father says.” Her father, Mr. Chatterjee, used to preach to her that God has no form and that she was not to worship the Deity. She told us, “I was a personalist all the time.”
Ref: Memories of Srila Prabhupada Tape 36