SOS Nrisimha for Bhakta Steve.

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Dear Prabhus,

Please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

While Srila Prabhupada's bookdistribution marathon is rolling on all over

the planet, I want to express the need of helping out Bhakta Steve, who used

to be one of our best bookdistributors in the Benelux.

 

A few years ago, very unfortunately, Bhakta Steve got shot by a criminal who

tried to steal from a jewelshop somewhere in Holland. Bhakta Steve was very

heavily wounded, he lost his spleen and it seems that he is suffering a very

difficult life after he was shot.

 

Hamsavatara prabhu, temple president of Iskcon Amsterdam, tries to help him

out as good as he can. Talking to him I understand it is complicated to try

to help Steve and at this point we may not be able to help him directly. I

find it appropriate however to first of all appeal to the Lord in a very

special way, to help out Steve.

 

At the beginning of this year, Pankajanghri prabhu, who serves Lord

Nrishimhadeva in Sridhama Mayapura, offered a possibility for donating about

108 euros. Such a donation facilitates a daily offering of garlands to Lord

Nrishimhadeva and the other Deities in Mayapura, this for one full year

long. Anyone interested to contribute to such an offering to Lord

Nrishimhadeva in name of Bhakta Steve, can please contact me.

 

I feel it is very appropriate to appeal for the mercy of Lord Nrishimhadeva

on Bhakta Steve. Isn't it our prime duty to try to help him ? I am sure if

we concentrate on it, we will come out with more concrete ways to help him

but, as a first step in the right direction, Lord Nrishimhadeva's mercy

appears to be extremely powerful in regard to accidents of devotees etc.

Please read the following, recent miracle stories that were sent by

Pankajangri prabhu :

 

Story of Revati Sundari

 

On April 22, 2005, Revati Sundari dd, age 8, was climbing on the roof

of the bamboo playhouse in the Grhastha park in Sri Mayapur dham. To

her great surprise, she fell through the roof, landing on her head,

and the roof caved in on top of her. She was in shock for an hour,

shaking and crying and incoherent. She also had a concussion. Gaura

Babu, our homeopathic Vaisnava doctor, treated her for concussion and

shock, and a few days later he suggested a scan.

 

After three days, Revati woke up in the night vomiting black blood.

We rushed her off to Kolkata. On the way, clear fluid was leaking

from her nose, then violent nosebleeds started.

 

We took her straight to a good pediatrician, who immediately called in

the top neurologist in the city. He ordered a CT scan and then,

seeing the results, he sent us to a very good neurosurgeon, who has

his own private hospital. Revati was admitted straight away.

 

The symptoms continued through the night, and we found out that the

clear fluid from her nose was the brain fluid (CFS) leaking out. The

scan clearly showed a fracture in the floor of her brain, from which

the brain fluid was escaping. Also her brain was swollen and blood

was pooling there, causing pressure. She had extreme pain in her head

which was unabated since the accident. The doctors worked on her for a

couple of days, giving her medicine intravenously. The whites of her

eyes became totally red. She was like a limp rag with little interest

in anything.

 

Finally the doctors said that the next morning, early, they would do a

special scan showing all the sections of her brain to determine the

exact extent of the injuries and then would probably decide to operate

to repair the damage. They would tell us their decision by 9 am.

 

I phoned Pankajanghri Prabhu, explaining the situation and asking him

to please pray to Lord Nrisinghadev. He immediately said he would do

a full puja between 5 and 7 AM, complete with abhisekha and everything

else. This was the time of the special scan.

 

The next morning when I met the doctors, they were looking amazed and

said that the new scan showed that the injuries were miraculously

almost healed. All the symptoms such as pain, violent nosebleeds,

brain fluid leakage, vomiting, etc, had abruptly stopped.

 

When I went in to see Revati, she was sitting up in bed looking

bright-eyed and fresh, and her eyes were fully white again. Thank

you, Lord Nrisimhadev!

 

Revati's comment on all this was: "Grandma, next time something

happens to me, please don't waste time with the doctors. Just bring

me straight to Lord Nrisimhadev!"

 

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Lord Nrsimhadev shows His mercy even to a non devotee.

 

Taiwan, 20th March 2006

 

Yasoda Mata's 85-year-old foster father passed away two months ago.

During his stay in the hospital, Yasoda Mata prepared a tape recorder and

played the Hare Krsna Maha Mantra all day long in his ward. Her foster

father was actually in semi-coma, but miraculously when he heard the Maha

mantra, gradually he awoke and with closed eyes he appeared to enjoying the

music and the sound vibration. He started to follow the tempo by tapping

his hand on the edge of his bed. His finger ring made the sound like "don,

don dondon, don don ........ " He looked like he was totally meditating

on the Maha mantra. Suddenly he spoke, "Look! There is a huge 5 clawed man,

and his head looks just like a lion's, he is coming into my ward. Don't you

see him? He is coming ...." The foster father still with eyes closed said

"Oh, yes, I forgot you all cannot see him, but he is really here. I do not

know who He is?" At that moment Yasoda Mata and her daughters looked at

each other in great surprise and answered. "Father, He is Lord Nrsimhadev".

"What dev ??? I don't know Him. But He is nodding His head to tell me that

He is." Yashoda mata felt great ecstasy in hearing this for in her house she

keeps a model of the Nrsimha Deity from Mayapur and had been offering heart

felt prayers to Him so that her father could leave the body without any

attachment and that his soul can become Krishna's devotee in his next birth.

Continuously her father said, "Look, He is smiling to me and starting to

speak again. Oh, He is telling me that I have to learn to chant what you are

chanting now.... what exactly are you chanting ?" He said. "It is a mantra

to call the holy name of Lord" Yasoda Mata replied. " I don't know what

mantra, but please teach Me." he said. "All right father, please repeat

after me and listen carefully -- Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna........." Yasoda

Mata taught her foster father word by word patiently. Without taking a long

time, he learned and tried to chant.... and chanted so nicely. The next

day he passed away with tranquility. During that weekend, we devotees here

congregated together to do the kirtan for Yasoda Mata's father at the

memorial service. Yasoda Mata prepared the prasadam garland, Ganga water,

tulasi, and put tilak on her father, which have all been done nicely and

properly according to her guru maharaj H.H. Giridhari Swami's telephone

instruction. Her foster father's face looked so peaceful, his cheeks were a

little pink, and his body was soft. After some customary ceremonies the body

was sent to the incinerator. A Few hours later the people who work in the

memorial service came to us and exclaimed in amazement - "We have never seen

anyone's ashes look so white and beautiful like jade as your father's! What

happened to him? What were you chanting for him?Could you write it down

for us? We want to learn and we think we can also chant while doing our

service here."

 

Why the Lord Himself personally appeared before someone who we consider is

not a devotee proves the sastric statement - that if one is always engaged

in the devotional service of the Lord, their family members will be

benefited as well.

>From Lin Tulip