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Our gurudeva also told a story once about Narahari Prabhu who was a disciple

of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami. Narahari Prabhu was not very

learned, but he was a very sincere devotee and such an excellent guru-sevaka

that all the sannyasis and more learned devotees would bow down at his feet.

I met him and saw for myself how he was always chanting, never sleeping, and

always doing any type of service at any time. He was the mother of the

Gaudiya Matha. He would even take the young boys on his lap, feed them, give

them medicine, put them to sleep, and do everything to look after them. In

the night he would take a lamp to attend the younger boys, and if one of

them had passed urine, no harm, he would clean it up. Everyone knew him as

“Florence Nightingale.” Once he was unable to digest anything and became so

ill that he was on the verge of death. Our guruji who was Vinoda Brahmacari

at that time, took Narahari Prabhu with him to Gurudeva's ancestral home in

East Bengal to meet a very famous ayurvedic doctor. After examining him, the

doctor said, “This man would have died within two or three days. Anyhow

Bhagavan has sent you to me, so first I want to give him one spoonful of

ghee.” Our Guru Maharaja said, “He cannot digest even water, what to speak

of other things? He will die at once if he takes ghee.” Then the doctor

explained his theory: “I will give him ghee knowing that it will pass

through him, but some coating will remain in his stomach. I will give him

one spoonful twice a day for seven days, this will be his treatment.” After

fifteen days they had obtained a good result, and in one month he was

totally cured.

 

The reason that I am giving this example is that in our present condition we

have no realisation of these higher services to Srimati Radhika which

Raghunatha dasa Gosvami is describing here, but by reading it some coating,

some samskara, will be established inside us. Then in the future when we

develop greed for these services we will be able to genuinely enter into

them. So we should read these books and sing these songs, but with immense

sraddha and great care. I know that I am not qualified to read these things,

yet I cannot stop reading them. Without reading these topics about Krsna and

the gopis I cannot live, so therefore I read them. So if you read these

books and sing these songs, it will create sraddha and samskara in your

hearts, certainly.

 

 

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