“...You will never see the light of day!”

Deena Bandhu Dasa recalls:

I think it must have been 1975; the opening of Krishna Balarama temple was there.
And everyday Srila Prabhupada used to go down what is now legally called Bhaktivedanta Swami Marg.

One day while walking Srila Prabhupada was so heavily preaching against abortion and birth control. He was just going on about how nasty this abortion is, this Kali yuga.

Srila Prabhupada gave the example, “Just like if I’ve purchased an apartment and I go there to take possession, and then you stop me: that is illegal! You will be arrested if I go to the police. Or if I’m living in the apartment and you come to kick me out: it is illegal! You will be arrested! So that soul he’s purchased that womb; that’s his apartment. If you stop him to come that is illegal! If he’s inside and you kick him out: that is illegal!”

Srila Prabhupada went on, “You will go from womb to womb and you will never see the light of day!”

On the way back he was a little quiet. One Indian man suddenly said, “Oh Prabhupada, I read today that this Guru Maharajaji his mother has denounced him!” We all laughed. Srila Prabhupada said, “What is that?”

The Indian man replied, “This Guru Maharajaji his mother has gone to the papers and she’s saying that this guy is bogus and she’s denounced him!”

Srila Prabhupada laughed. We walked a few more steps and the Indian man continued, “Yes, practically she has finished him!”

Srila Prabhupada stopped, dug his cane in the street and looked at all of us, “She should have finished him in the womb!”