When my Guru Maharaja ordered me… When I was manager in Bose’s laboratory, so he ordered me. So I thought, “Oh, I cannot do this. I cannot accept this sannyasa.” But he was so kind, and he is so kind still. Then he forced me, that “You must do it,” taking…, pulling my ear, he brought me to this life. In the beginning I was not willing. So it is his causeless mercy upon me. That I can understand now. I can understand now how much I have been relieved by accepting this life.

Srila Prabhupada – July 13, 1971, Los Angeles