Pragosh Prabhu's Condition - help needed urgently !

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Sri Prahlada (das) HDG

16-May-04 20:16 +0200

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Praghosa Prabhu

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Dear Respected Vaisnava,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

I am broadcasting this to most of the devotees in my address book.

Praghosa Prabhu, our long-term godbrother, friend and book

distributor, is in a lot of trouble as you will see in the attached

document from Udayananda Prabhu. Radhanatha Maharaja and Indradyumna

Maharaja, among others, are significantly helping also.

 

Udayananda Prabhu has taken on the responsibility to raise up some

money for the medical expenses that are needed for Praghosa prabhu.

He asked me to help, both by donating some money and by forwarding

his message to all I know.

 

Please consider acting on two items:

 

1) Get in contact with Udayananda Prabhu, who's email address and

telephone number are in the body of this text, for purposes of

offering a donation to this cause if you are inclined. You will also

see his email address in the cc:

 

2) If you know devotees that might wish to help, kindly forward this

email to them.

 

Might I suggest that even a small amount of money will help us in

this cause.

 

Your servant,

 

Gopal Bhatta das

 

 

Here are the letters from Udayananda Prabhu:

 

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Help Save the Life of Praghosa Prabhu... Please!!!

 

Dear devotees,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

The following appeal is one of the most difficult and painful things

I have had to do in my entire life. Our dear Godbrother and friend,

Praghosa dasa, has contracted a life threatening case of cancer. The

doctors in the Chowpaty Temple have discovered a tumor 18 inches long

and 10 inches wide in the abdominal area of his body. The attached

letter from one of his doctors to Radhanatha Swami will give a

further explanation of his exact condition.

 

It has been determined that in order to save Praghosa's life, this

tumor needs to be shrunk by several sessions of extremely costly

chemotherapy. Because of the size and location of this tumor, surgery

and/or radiation is not possible at this juncture. The cost of this

procedure will be a minimum of $25,000.00 US.

 

Praghosa is the father and provider of a wonderful vaisnava family.

He and his wife, Radhanga dasi have six children, a daughter-in-law

and a grandchild. They all live in Sri Dham Mayapura. His body is 51

years old. After 31 years of devotional service to Srila Prabhupada,

he is still distributing Srila Prabhupada's books on a daily basis on

the streets of New York City. Just a little over a month ago, on

St.Patrick's day, he distributed over 150 of Srila Prabhupada's

books in NYC. That day he called me on his cell phone and told me

that he was feeling ecstatic in the nectar of book distribution and

wanted to share it with me. He had a small "hand's free" ear bud

connected to his cell phone in which I could hear clearly what he was

saying to the conditioned souls and how they were responding in

return. I listened for about 45 minutes to one the most ecstatic

exchanges of book distribution expertise that I have ever heard in my

life. Practically every person that would stop would give a donation,

and with great appreciation take a book promising to read it.

 

The possibilities of this maharati book distributor continuing to

distribute books, and possibly training others, will be over very

soon if he cannot receive proper medical attention. The doctors say

that if he is treated immediately, there is a 70% survival rate.

 

Prabhus, I am begging on my knees, please help me to serve Srila

Prabhupada's movement by restoring the health of this great soldier

in Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's army. Forty-four years ago we became

best friends. Thirty-one years ago I brought him to the temple. Now

due to my bad karma I do not have the funds to save him. I can only

beg for your mercy.

 

The worthless beggar,

Udayananda dasa

 

 

If you want to contribute by cash, check, MasterCard, Visa, Discover

card, American Express, make your checks out to:

 

Radhika Galleries-Save Praghosa Fund

3801 Obra Rd.

Graham, NC 27253

 

You can contact me at my email address:

 

cieslakparker

telephone:336-376-0331, 336-376-9377

 

For creditcard or debitcard You can give me the card number, the

expiration date, the name on the card and the amount you want to

donate.

 

Thanking you in advance,

 

Your servant,

Udayananda dasa

 

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Dear Udayananda Prabhu,

Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila

Prabhupada. Thank you very much for your kind letter. I have noted

the contents carefully. Let us sincerely pray for Praghosh Prabhus

health and let us all do whatever is required to help him. If we wish

to offer him a peaceful treatment we must all work together. Please

allow me to honestly explain the situation. We offered to try our

best to meet his medical expenses. If Praghosh Prabhu decides to go

for the Chemo Therapy it will simply be too costly for our temple to

afford without a lot of help. Our doctors only earn about $500 per

month (that is a lot in India). They all have families and homes to

maintain. Our temple has been sustained hand to mouth over the years.

In India there is no real income in book distribution. Chowpatty

temple is in the top 5 of the world every year for the December

Marathon and in the top ten for the yearly totals. All money earned

by book distribution pays the BBT and maintains the book distribution

parties. There are little or no funds beyond that. Praghosh Prabhu

could certainly inspire more book distribution but there is nothing

Praghosh Prabhu could do to raise substantial income. In India,

practically all temples are maintained by life membership. Our temple

has never made a single life member. We agreed to this years ago, to

avoid conflict with the JUHU temple. Thus our temple has always run

hand to mouth for sustenance. Our hospital being closed for 9 months

has been a terrible financial strain for the supporters of the

hospital. I informed the temple to try to compensate the costs of

Praghosh Prabhu with money from donations and daksina which has been

given to me. I always immediately turn it over to the temple. There

is only about $3,000 left of that. I did not believe the treatments

would exceed that. Our doctors will continue to serve him around the

clock for absolutely free. That is already at much cost to them but

they are grateful to do so. If Praghosh Prabhu requires Chemo Therapy

our simple temple simply has no means to cover the entire cost for

the materials required. We will certainly do our very best and

beyond. However, if our beloved Godbrother does go into this Chemo

treatment it will require a joint effort of those who really love

him. It appears to me that Krishna wants to give a chance to his dear

friends to help at this time. "A friend in need is a friend indeed."

My humble and sincere request to you is please, please, please help

in this crucial matter. You are his very dearest friend. You know who

are his dear friends and well wishers. Please contribute and inspire

his other friends to contribute to this noble cause. It is a genuine

way to show our love and reciprocate with his incredible life of

devotion. If this treatment is required let us all sincerely and

earnestly work together to raise the funds required. Let us do

everything possible to keep Praghosh Prabhu free of all financial

anxieties at this critical time in his life. Let us show our love and

appreciation through our service to him. Whatever is best for him, he

should get with minimum disturbance. Please, if necessary, do contact

his friends and well wishers for help and contribute whatever you

possibly can. Let us all stand united in our sacrifice to serve this

great soul. Srila Prabhupada will certainly be pleased. Your servant,

Radhanath Swami

 

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4/28/04

 

Dear Radhanatha Swami Maharaja,

 

Hare Krishna

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Please accept my most humble obeisances.

It was revealed in the investigations of H.G.Praghosh Prabhu that he

has developed recurrence of his previous cancer. Amazingly he has

developed an unusually large sized Tumor approximately 1 ½ feet by

10

inches in size on the left side of the abdomen going into the Pelvis,

going up to the left

 

Kidney encroaching upon important structures like left Kidney,

Abdominal Aorta and Big Veins, like an Octopus. It is very obvious

that he has neglected his health and early symptoms of the relapse

very badly. In one sense, this is a very serious condition as the

Tumor can burst the Aorta and Veins & cause fatal bleeding inside. He

is still in the hospital. Today he was supposed to undergo Surgical

Excision of left Inguinal Lymph Node to assess the status of the

cancer whether malignant or benign or local. Surgical removal of the

big Tumor is impossible due to its Octopus like encroaching

structure, which may endanger the vital structures. He needs to

urgently take 6 sessions of Chemotherapy with advanced drugs with the

interval of 4 to 6 weeks between the 2 sessions. For each session he

needs to be hospitalized for 48hrs and each session will cost Indian

rupees 1 lakh 25-30 thousand. It will be unimaginably costly abroad.

The very first session will bring the tumor to 1/3rd of its size most

probably. Please please please tell him not to think of any

alternative treatment at this moment of time. That can be considered,

once the life threatening size of the Tumor goes down by

Chemotherapy. Anything else but Chemotherapy will put his life at

risk. Detailed evaluation of the Tumor is awaited. All the above

things are duly explained to him.

 

Your servant

Vishwarup das MD

 

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