A tree is cut; Srila Prabhupada’s response

In this place you [Srila Prabhupada] manifested your divine anger when the devotees foolishly cut down very large and beautiful tree that had been standing in the courtyard. It had been one of the real opulences of the temple. The heavy winds of a Texas storm had knocked it over so that it was leaning on the roof of the prasadam hall at about a sixty degree angle. The devotees, thinking it would eventually come down through the roof, had taken an electric saw and dismantled it limb by limb. You scolded the devotees, saying, “This is your brute Western mentality: if something is wrong, immediately kill it.” The dent where the tree hit the building is still visible in the metal on the edge of the roof above the prasadam hall.

From Dallas Vyasa-puja offering 1990

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