Prabhupada Affirms: “No More Coming Down”

Prabhupada was sitting in his back room with Hayagriva and Umapati and other disciples.  The evening meeting had just ended and the visitors from Millbrook had gone.  “Krishna consciousness is so nice, Swamiji,” Umapati spoke up.  “You just get higher and higher, and you don’t come down.”

Prabhupada smiled.  “Yes, that’s right.”

“No more coming down,” Umapati said, laughing, and the others also began to laugh.  Some clapped their hands, repeating, “No more coming down.”

The conversation inspired Hayagriva and Umapati to produce a new handbill:

STAY HIGH FOREVER!
No More Coming Down

Practice Krishna Consciousness
Expand your consciousness by practicing the

*TRANSCENDENTAL SOUND VIBRATION*

HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE
HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE

The leaflet went on to extol Krishna consciousness over any other high.  It included phrases like “end all bringdowns” and “turn on”, and it spoke against “employing artificially induced methods of self-realization and expanded consciousness.”  Someone objected to the flyer’s “playing too much off the hippie mentality,” but Prabhupada said it was all right.