Bhakti Vikasa Swami: fired! [ 2010-07-27 ]
As for Srila Prabhupada's own unfamiliarity with Western culture, it was a feature that simply made him more dear to us. If he did not understand the use of a word in the English or American language, it was another occasion to love him. One time a devotee told Prabhupada that he might get fired from his job. Prabhupada was astonished and said, "Fired? They would fire on you?" Prabhupada thought the devotee would be fired with a gun. The devotee replied, "Oh no, Prabhupada! Fired just means they would release me from the job." We would all laugh together about his not knowing these words. We did not expect him to know such things, but neither did we think of him as a "foreigner." Prabhupada knew the transcendental world, the real home. To be unaware of the material world was just another sign of his detachment.

>From Prabhupada Meditations by SDG