Prabhupada’s “Involuntary” Smiles 

By smiling involuntarily I mean the best kind of smiles, when you can’t help yourself but feel your lips parting back from your teeth, and there you are, smiling.  Perhaps you even make an effort not to smile, but you have to smile anyway.  It was very pleasing to see Prabhupada smile like that, because it was so humanlike.  Somehow or other, we all hankered to see those aspects of Prabhupada.  He was godlike; he was heavy as guru.  If he had not been so heavy, he would not have been able to take us out of maya.  But we all sought his smile as a special kind of lift; and also for tenderness’ sake, we very much wanted to see Srila Prabhupada smile.