This quality of “Saragrahi” is the perfect description of Yamuna Devi. She offered unconditionally, in total absorption, her body, her mind, her heart and her very soul in everything she did. Srila Prabhupada again and again would plead with us to take this Krishna Consciousness very seriously, how Yamuna Devi took that instruction as her heart and soul, in everything she did.
Some examples; in 1966, she went to twenty-six, second Avenue on the invitation of her sister Janaki, to be there for her marriage and Srila Prabhupada gave her the instruction, first time meeting, to help him cook. He taught her cooking. How seriously did she take that first little seed of an instruction? Not only did she become the most accomplished cook in our whole society, she wrote a cook book called ‘Lord Krishna's Cuisine’ and with that name her cook book became the number one international cook book of the year. Her cooking became the standard of our whole society. She cooked with such meticulous precision to every single detail. I am remembering once when I went to her home in Saranagati for prasad, her and Dinatarini devi prepared, I think there were six different flavoured chapatis. Each one so unique, so absolutely delicious. I didn't even know there was such thing as ‘flavoured chapatis’. They were all natural, organic and absolutely intoxicating.
