Srila Prabhupada passtimes-21-Krishna is so Kind.

I was in Montreal and Prabhupada was giving a lecture. At that time- they got a Vyasasana for him, a very high one - It was that if you stood up you would be facing Prabhupada eye to eye - or He would still be a little bit higher then that. It was a very high vyasasana and he had to crawl up, there were steps going up there. It was more like a pulpit. He would even take prasadam sitting on it. They would bring a big plate of prasadam and sometimes he would give it out from there. 

One day he was giving his lecture from up there, naturally, and at this point he was preaching very hard. We have to be a hundred percent Krishna conscious - we have to try to be hundred percent Krishna conscious, We have to try for that. If we are hundred percent Krishna conscious then we can get pure love of Krishna, then our life will be successful. He was just hammering on this point. 

The devotees were thinking a hundred percent! Their heads were gradually hanging down and they became very thoughtful. A hundred percent! It was such an objective that it never seemed that it would ever be possible to get very close to hundred percent. But Prabhupada was very emphatic on this point. The devotees were very thoughtful at this time. When Prabhupada ended the class, there was a heavy silence. He ended the class saying, " Become cent percent Krishna conscious." It was just like a death sentence, the silence was so thick you could swim through. 

Prabhupada was sitting on that raised vyasasana and said, " Even if you are ninety percent Krishna conscious, Krishna is so kind that you still may be delivered." Then he started down and he was half way down.

 Just as he was getting off the vyasasana he turned to the devotees and said, " Even eighty percent, you can be delivered." 

He started walking off and he turned and his chadder fell off. I remember it was so dramatic..... almost like you see in the movies, "Julius Caesar." He said, " Even seventy percent!" He took his chadder and threw it over his shoulders and raised his head and walked off. 

The purport was that we should try for one hundred percent.