12. Disappearance Day of Jayananda Prabhu

[Guest guest]

Jayananda looks like Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

 

 

Jayananda looks like Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. (laughter) Yes. He was tall and

stout and strong, Caitanya Mahaprabhu. (laughing) Yes. Very good.

 

[s.P. Talk, Initiation Lecture,and Ten Offenses Lecture Los Angeles, December

1, 1968]

 

 

 

"I am sure that you were directly promoted to Krsna-loka."

 

 

My Dear Jayananda,

Please accept my blessings.

I am feeling very intensely your separation. In 1967 you joined me in San

Francisco. You were driving my car and chanting Hare Krsna. You were the first

man to give me some contribution ($5000) for printing my Bhagavad-gita. After

that, you have rendered very favorable service to Krsna in different ways. I so

hope at the time of your death you were remembering Krsna and as such, you have

been promoted to the eternal association of Krsna. If not, if you had any tinge

of material desire, you have gone to the celestial kingdom to live with the

demigods for many thousands of years and enjoy the most opulent life of

material existence. From there you can promote yourself to the spiritual world.

But even if one fails to promote himself to the spiritual world, at that time

he comes down again on the surface of this globe and takes birth in a big

family like a yogis' or a brahmanas' or an aristocratic family, where there is

again chance of reviving Krsna Consciousness. But as you were hearing

Krsna-kirtana, I am sure that you were directly promoted to Krsna-loka.

 

janma karma ca me divyam

evam yo vetti tattvatah

tyaktva deham punar janma

naiti man eti so' rjuna

 

Krsna has done a great favor to you, not to continue your diseased body, and

has given you a suitable place for your service. Thank you very much.

 

Your ever well-wisher,

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

 

[s.P. Letter to: Jayananda Bombay 5 May, 1977]