Sarva gattah Posted October 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2008 Healing process slowly positively continues - October 29, 6.00 pm:(7 hours ago New York time Time which was 9.30 this morning) Guru Maharaja had to be put on sedatives yesterday evening because when he is conscious he asks the doctors to remove the tubes as it is uncomfortable for him. The doctor's plan was to start removing the ventilator today. Today early in the morning Guru Maharaja came to awakeness from his sleeping state. He asked again for clicker to chant mentally and chanted few mantras on it after that he became tired and slept for a while. Since his condition was stable the doctors put the ventilation off without removing the tubes to check how Guru Maharaja was responding. For 2 hours Guru Maharaja was able to breathe by himself but later felt uncomfortable therefore the ventilator was turned on again. Since then Guru Maharaja is exhausted and is taking rest. Guru Maharaja's sugar level is normal. His platelet count is 82,000 today*. Although his BP is fluctuating still nothing alarming. The doctors will continue this process until he is able to breathe normally without the help of ventilator. Let us keep intensely praying and chanting. May Lord Krishna and Lord Narasimhadeva empower the doctors and nurses in this process as well as to give strength to Guru Maharaja to crossover these difficult moments. Your humble servant, Ratnavali dd * platelet count is normally between 150,000-450,000 platelets in each microliter of blood. Low platelet counts or abnormally shaped platelets are associated with bleeding disorders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted October 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2008 Maharaj is Still Nicely Improving HH Bhakti Charu Swami spoke on HH Jayapataka Swami’s health situation and how Lord Krsna always protects His devotees. Click to listen here. Continuous prayers and chanting are going on in Mayapur for HH Jayapataka Swami. A Nrsimha Homa was performed on 28th October. Today Panca Tattva Astottara Nama is recited pleading the most merciful incarnations to help Maharaja come out of this situation. You can download all these prayers in our Kirtan Downloads section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted October 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 When Gopal Krishna Maharaja came to visit him, Maharaja took Gopal Krishna Maharaja’s hand and put it on his head and had tears in his eyes. Last update: (30-Oct-08, 12:30 p.m. report) Ratnavali dd: CT scan report is positive. The report shows the same situation as the day one and nothing new. Guru Maharaja is coming back to consciousness again like yesterday. When Gopal Krishna Maharaja came to visit him, Maharaja took Gopal Krishna Maharaja’s hand and put it on his head and had tears in his eyes. The only biggest hurdle right now is his respiratory system. If that functions well then they could remove the ventilator. Your humble servant, Ratnavali dd —————————– (30-Oct-08, 10:00 a.m. report) Ratnavali dd: Maharaja was given sedatives yesterday in the night as he wants the tubes to be removed. The tubes can be removed only until he is able to breathe normally. Today in the morning his conscious level is down a bit. They are taking him to the CT scan and then we could have some clear picture. Devotees are asked to keep on praying especially at this most critical moment. Your humble servant, Ratnavali ddr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted October 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 It will take sometime, even weeks for Maharaj's body to become stronger. Also, according to expert specialist observers, his body weight will have to come down considerably to assist the healing process and prolong life. Thursday, October 30, 8.30 pm: This afternoon the doctors did Tracheostomy. Tracheostomy is a surgical opening in the trachea (windpipe) that forms a temporary opening to make breathing easier. They have inserted the ventilator tube into this hole instead of sending the tube through the mouth. Since Guru Maharaja is unable to breathe by himself they cannot remove the ventilator. They cannot keep the tubes through the mouth for a long time and it can catch infection. Guru Maharaja also feels uncomfortable with the tubes. Therefore the panel of doctors decided to go for tracheostomy. Compared to yesterday the consciousness level is down today. There could be different factors. They will wait and see tomorrow. Apart from this the other parameters are stable. We do not know how many more days it might take for Guru Maharaja to breathe by himself and to be out of ventilator. It is all upto Srila Prabhupada and Lord Krishna now. Whatever happened so far is a miracle and we need more miracles for Guru Maharaja to completely come out of this situation successfully. Your humble servant Ratnavali<!-- / message --><!-- sig --> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted October 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 Of course everything is in Krsna’s hands. However, Krsna does listen to the sincere prayers of the Vaishnavas!! So Please keep praying Messages from Godbrothers of HH Jayapataka Swami Posted below are messages from HH Jayapataka Maharaj’s godbrothers.(compiled by Suvarna Krsna Lila dd) HH Radhanath Maharaj (25 October 2008): “4000 devotees are going to pray in Vrindavan. And in Vrindavan to whichever holy place they go, they will be praying for Jayapataka Maharaj. And they are going to dedicate the whole yatra for HH Jayapataka Maharaj.” Maharaj also mentioned that he is with all of us (all the disciples).Maharaj instructed the Chowpatty temple that the 24hrs kirtan praying for the recovery of HH Jayapataka Maharaj should continue. HH Ramai Swami Maharaj - “I really do not know exactly what plans the Supreme Personality Sri Krsna and Srila Prabhupada have for HH Jayapataka Swami. As far as we are concerned, we hope that he recovers and stays with us and gives us his association. And helps push on the preaching all around the world as he has always done. My heart goes to him and my heart goes to all the disciples of Jayapataka Swami. And we are continually praying. I have asked, as a GBC chairman, that some GBCs stay here in Mumbai just to follow the developments as for as his health is concerned. So some are staying on extra, they have changed their timings and everything like that so that four, five or six GBCs will stay on like that. We are feeling positive by the indications given by the doctors there. Of course everything is in Krsna’s hands!! It could improve by His will and be happy.” HH Sivaram Swami Maharaj - Hare Krsna! Very often in medical history, there is a thing that doctors say are medically inexplicable, doesn’t make sense to medical science. And that’s because in the ultimate issue it is not the medical science that determines whether someone becomes healthy or unhealthy because they deal with a very immediate cause and effect but as devotees we know that beyond the immediate movement of organs the reaction to some kind of medication, medicine, treatment is the underlying spiritual energy upon which all matter functions. And that spiritual energy is directly under spiritual control, which then subsequently controls the material energy. And our faith in regards to the conditions of HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaj is that in that way, he is in Krsna’s hands and Krsna is the controller. Whatever apparent medical indications areican be overridden by the underlying spiritual potency which directs everything. And spiritual potency to cure and direct the material energy can be invoked by the devotees’ desire. Therefore devotees pray. We pray for the wellbeing of Vaisnavas, we pray that Jayapataka Swami Maharaj may be cured. But we always pray in a certain mood. Just like Srila Prabhupad taught us to prayi ‘My dear Lord Krsna if you so desire..’. Because we don’t want to voice any type of intention that would appear to be separate from Krsna’s desire. So if it is Krsna’s desire, then we request that ‘You please cure Jayapataka Maharaj’. And the quality of our faith that is parallel and in harmony with Krsna’s desire and quantity of our faith is that we know actually Krsna can do anything. Atheistic people, materialistic people may have a different vision but as Vaisnavas we know that if Krsna wants ‘mukam karoti vacalam, pangum langhayate girim..’, He can make lame people walk across mountains and make dumb people speak and bring any person of any type of sickness and He can make them completely healthy, against so called medical evidence and medical science because Krsna is the ultimate doctor! Krsna is the ultimate mystic and He is the ultimate controller!. So we should have faith in that and we should pray in that way and know that certainly Jayapataka Maharaj is not a victim of material energy but he is directly under Krsna’s hands. He is been in Krsna’s hands all this time and now he is also in Krsna’s hands. So we will pray to Krsna ’so if you want to fulfill the desires of so many disciples, devotees and well wishers of His Divine Grace’. Hare Krsna.” HG Badrinarayan prabhu - “Jayapataka Maharaj is one of the generals in Lord Caitanya’s army and it is very hard for me to accept that he does not have further duties and battles to win for Krsna. At our meeting yesterday, at the GBC meeting, repeatedly we thought ‘Jayapataka Maharaj would know the answer’. If Jayapataka Maharaj was here… as far as spirit of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, relationships with Gaudiya Math, how to develop Mayapur, Prabhupada’s instructions and vision for the future temple, he is an irreplaceable storehouse of practical experience and transcendental knowledge and an ocean of Prabhupada’s instructions. So just like Nrsimha brahmachari, his mind could not go beyond a certain point on the path I cannot picture going on without our Jayapataka Maharaj. Still Krsna has his plan. We don’t have that vision so we simply fold our hands and pray that whatever Krsna wants may it become manifest and we understand it. Hare Krsna. HG Anuttama Prabhu - “I had the honor of visiting Jayapataka Maharaj in his hospital room, the day after he was taken to the hospital in the morning. And his color was very good. Obviously he was unconscious and in the hospital he was getting treatment of many different fluids, tubes and things like that. He was in the corner room of the intensive care with windows on both sides. I noticed that sunlight was coming in and sun is always an auspicious and helpful sign. And I spoke into Maharaja’s ear. I understand often times people in this situation, they can still hear and I told him how much the devotees around the world loved him and devotees around the world are praying for him and I told him that I am praying that Krsna restores his full strength and full health so that we can preach together and serve Prabhupada together for many more years. And I told him that we are very grateful for his very sweet nature and his loving compassion mood towards so many devotees all over the world. And I offer my obeisances to all the disciples of HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaj and I pray that Krsna will give them strength in this difficult time and they offer their most sincere prayers to Lord Krsna. Srila Prabhupada, when he had serious health crisis he instructed his disciples to pray ‘My dear Lord Krsna, if you so desire, then please let our spiritual master stay for he has not finished his work’. So ultimately situations like this are in the hands of the Lord. But the signs are good. We are keeping our hope and prayers up and we are praying to Krsna understanding that Krsna has, in the recent years, Prabhupada has called back some of his senior most preachers to help him wherever his mission may be at this time. And that been very painful but we are hoping this time our prayers will be heard by the Lord and he may bless us and allow us to have more of Jayapataka Maharaja’s association in this world for few more years so we can relish his association in the service of Srila Prabhupada and Lord Krsna. All my prayers and best wishes are to his disciples and well wishers around the world. May we get the strength in each other’s association and remember this and our appreciation for Maharaj for his love and service. Hare Krsna! Prabhava Das - May Lord Krsna Protect Jayapataka Maharaja, who has been working so hare to spread the mission of Lord Caitanya throughout the world tirelessly.He is so dear to all of his desciples and dear godbrothers.I am praying to Lord Krsna to protect Jayapataka Maharaja at times that is needed the most.We all love him very much and that we want to see him recover quickly .Of course , he will from now on spend more time at one place and take care of his health.Please , Lord Krsna protect and give Your blessings to Your dear preacher. I also request many of my friends and godbrothers to make similar prayers to Lord Krsna from the core your hearts. Your humble servant Prabhava das Pusta Krishna das - "Dear Bhaktas and especially disciples of His Holiness Jayapataka Maharaj, Please do not despair. I have just now seen that tracheostomy has been done, and this is a wise decision on the part of his physicians. Here in the San Jose, California area, our pulmonary specialists recommend this relatively early also since it protects the injury to the vocal cords that occurs with prolonged intubation, and it facilitates suctioning of secretions from the airways. Thus, it helps to prevent infections of the lungs or pneumonia which is very dangerous when one is on a ventilator. The injury to the part of the brain where hemorrhage occurred can play a role in breathing, and so that part of the brain will hopefully recover with time so that our dear Jayapataka Maharaj will recover more and more his capacity to breathe, speak, and interact with his disciples and well- wishers. Please be patient as this may take some time. It may also play a role in wakefulness as well. So, Maharaj resting is part of the injury to that part of the brain. But, remember, he is the atma within the body. His service is under the internal potency of Sri Krishna, so whatever situation he may be placed in, that is the grace of the Supreme Lord. I have noted in some of the reports that a clicker is being used for Maharaj to chant the Mahamantra internally. There are small tulasi japa malas that have 27 beads. If you can arrange that, and if Maharaj possesses the dexterity to use it, please give him a small tulasi mala to use when he wishes to chant to himself. I am thinking about my Godbrother frequently in these days, and I am grateful for the updates on his condition. We must be able to see his divine self through this, as he is also feeling the urgency and necessity to take profound shelter of Sri Krishna. Krishna is our dearmost Friend, and so we must believe that all is for the very best. And, I pray too that this unexpected health emergency will bring out the very best in his disciples as well. Hare Krishna. 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Sarva gattah Posted November 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 The platelet count today is now 98,000, it needs to reach at least 150,000 for the vessels in the body to stop the sometimes leaking blood that can happen at anytime when high blood pressure developes Friday, November 1st, 2008 - 6.30 pm: After the tracheostomy yesterday, Guru Maharaja is not fully conscious. He is resting. Only once this morning he opened his eyes and after that he is resting again. At 1.30pm they have turned off the ventilator system. Guru Maharaja was able to breathe by himself until 7.30pm. They didn't want to strain Guru Maharaja and therefore they have turned on the ventilator system again. The BP is on the higher side but the doctors say it is alright. The sugar level is normal. The platelet count is now 98,000 today. Subhag Maharaja and all the senior devotees are asking us to chant and pray more for our Guru Maharaja's recovery. Only Lord Krishna can perform miracles and without his blessings nothing can happen. As long as Guru Maharaja is in the ICCU his situation is still critical. Guru Maharaja appeared in a dream to a devotee yesterday and said, "Please keep on chanting. That gives me strength." Your humble servant, Ratnavali dd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted November 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 Prognoses doesn’t look good, it appears too much damage may have been done to the brain although time will tell. It is all in the hands of the Doctors, the prayers of the devotees and the will and ultimatly the inconceivable plan and mercy of Krsna. 01-Nov-08, 10 pm report) Dr. P. P Ashok visited Maharaja and he wasn’t happy with his situation. Maharaja is not conscious and doesn’t respond to any commands. Brain haemorrage is very unpredictable. Any moment anything can happen. Blood preassure is also on the higher side and keeps fluctuating. The doctor says Maharaja can remain like this for a longer period of time. He is still in ICU and with ventilator. Let us all pray intensely to Krsna. Only Krsna can do something. It is all in His hands. May Sri Sri Radha Rasabihari cast their most merciful glance upon our beloved Jayapataka Maharaja so that he can come out of this horrifying situation and be with us all again. Your humble servant, Ratnavali dd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted November 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 Srila Prabhupada remained in the association of his loving disciples Jayapataka Swami - "In 1977 A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, at the age of 82, suffered illness repeatedly and became in a physically weakened state. He decided to discontinue his travelling around the world and take shelter of Vrndavana dhama, the sacred place of Lord Krsna's pastimes. He listened and chanted Hare Krsna and meditated on the transcendental pastimes of Krsna, throughout the day and night. However, Srila Prabhupada remained in the association of his loving disciples, who assisted him during his final pastime by chanting, very softly and sweetly, the Hare Krsna mantra 24 hours a day. Srila Prabhupada said that this was his 'nirjana-bhajana', and that his sannyasi disciples, including the translator of this work, had to take over the responsibility of travelling and preaching all over the world, as he would not be able to travel anymore. This great spiritual master had taken shelter of Lord Krsna in Vrndavana during the last days of this life. (H. H. Jayapataka Swami - Commentary on Srila Bhaktisiddhanta's Vaisnava Ke?, Verse 19) Jayapataka Swami - "So Vidura began his pilgrimage traveling around the different holy places of India. By his traveling, Yudhisthira later made a quotation that you make the holy places holy because you are carrying Krsna always in your heart. He went as a humble devotee. He was going to get purified from the association of Duryodhana and Dhrtarastra. So here in this verse, the glories of the holy places is mentioned. In the Padma Purana there is a list of holy places. According to a holy place's ability to counteract sin, purify one from different sins, it is rated. So there is a whole chapter that rates little sins like lying and stealing. There are lots of holy places that can do that. But if you murder somebody, then which holy place? There is a list of those. Then if you murdered a brahmana, then there's a list. Then finally there are seven holy places that if you die there you go back to Godhead immediately. Mayapur is one of them. Devotees: Haribol! Prabhupada once arrived in Mayapur, we had a big reception for him, we offered guru-puja. Then he gave his class. He went up to his room, he sat in seat, he took a sip of water. Prabhupada would drink water without touching. He taught us, so we had to drink water without touching. If you touch, your hand is dirty. You touch the Bhagavatam, you just committed an aparadha. You spit on the Bhagavatam according to brahminical standards. He taught everyone. He gave Brahmananda sweet balls and said, "Throw it in your mouth without touching." If you live in India, you have to learn these things because people notice. They know the standard of cleanliness. In the West, nobody cares. If you drink from a glass of water, nobody thinks twice about it, but in India they notice. You drink, you touch. If you drink without touching, then you can touch the Bhagavatam. Prabhupada always drank without touching. He had a golden goblet. He drank and then, [sighs]. I can't sigh the way he sighed. He sighed an ecstatic sigh. I just sigh an ordinary sigh. He said, "Living and dying in Mayapur is all the same." Devotees: Haribol! Wow, what does that mean? He said, "You live in Mayapur, you are living in the holy dham, and when you die in Mayapur, you go back to Godhead. You are living in the spiritual world and when you die you go back to the spiritual world." It's like this year we are going on the safari to Divyadesa. We are going to the holy places designated by Ramanaujacarya. Some of them are considered like the spiritual world on earth. Prabhupada told us even Haridaspur, where Haridasa Thakur was chanting for one day, within a three mile radius it is a holy tirtha. It is called sripat. Where the Lord's murti is established, then it has a wider area that is affected. It is a whole science. So Vidura was going to all these temples. Just like Ranganatha is the personal Deity of Lord Ramacandra. He gave to Vibhisana, but he got tricked by the brahmana to leave on Ranganatha Island, Sri Rangam, in the middle of the Kaveri river. So all these deities, the Kancipuram diety, Ramanauja's disciple, Kuresa, who was blinded, he got his eyesight back from the Deity. Even in our Mayapur, Lord Jagannath is always performing so many miracles. When we go there on parikrama, you can hear from the pujaris about his different pastimes. Our Nrsimhadeva also saved one lady from blindness, many different pastimes. I think this verse is very appropriate for me because I travel around the world. I don't know what most of the places look like. Only I know what Frankfurt looks like because I went on harinama in downtown Frankfurt with the devotees. Otherwise, I don't know what. I went to Koln in Germany. I only know what London looks like because I go on Ratha Yatra. I just go from the airport to the temple and see the Deities. The Deities are so special. Some of our devotees, some did well, some didn't do well, but the ones who did well took groups of wealthy Indians to see the temples in the west. In this way, going around seeing all the Deities, seeing the wonderful devotees practicing Krsna consciousness in the West. Many of them started chanting japa and become devotees themselves. Even they went on a mixed spiritual tour, see Washington, see New York, then they'd go and see Radha-Govinda, they'd see the different Deities. Actually, they'd get purified. These Deities all over the world also, like we heard a few days ago in the class, embassies. The Dhams are direct extensions of the spiritual world. The temples are embassies. Like Haridaspur,there was no temple there, but Haridas Thakur stopped and chanted 300,000 names of Krsna there. So Prabhupada said it is a holy place, Sripat, wherever some pure devotees gives a class, that is also sanctified. So all the places they especially established Deities. We go around Gaura Mandala Bhumi and say, "This Deity was established by Lord Nityananda. This Deity was establish by Bhaktivinoda Thakura. This deity was established by one of the associates of Lord Caitanya." We go there, we bow down, remember that associate. It is so sanctified. Similarly, the Deities which were installed by Prabhupada or worshiped by Prabhupada, those are more special. In New Panihati, Atlanta, Prabhupada taught the devotees how to chant "parama karuna, pahun dui jana, nitai-gauracandra". He was crying before Gaura-Nitai. Tears of love were pouring from his eyes. He said, "How merciful they are. They have come here to America to deliver the fallen souls." Like that there are worshipable Deities all over the world, giving their mercy out. For me it's a great pilgrimage to go and visit these Deities. Of course in India, if you can't go anywhere, at least come to Mayapur or Vrindavan or both because here all the holy places are exisiting. They all reside. This is Radharani's place. Radharani made Mayapur Dham for the pleasure of Krsna. So to please Radharani, the supreme energy, all of the holy places have come. Or some say they are all here and from here they expand out to their other external forms. We'll see Naimisaranya on parikrama. We'll see Puskar-tirtha, Kuruksetra, Triveni, Pancaveni, Campaka gardens of Campakalata devi. Campakalata is next to Lalita. She has her own gardens in Mayapur to bring campa flowers to Radha-Krsna by her mystical powers. With their supreme energy, they all have so many potencies. We can't imagine. These deities are unlimited, ananta-linga, unlimited potencies. We pray, Prabhupada would pray to all the Deities, so many pictures of him standing with folded hands, praying. Once some lady came up to Prabhupada and said "What are you praying?" Everyone was shocked, how can you just ask someone what they're praying. It's private. Prabhupada looked at her, then said, "I'm praying that I never leave Krsna consciousness." Whether that was what he was praying or that is what he was instructing her she should pray, we should pray like that anyway. Take the tip. You don't want to leave Krsna consciousness. We want to spend ourselves under the shelter of Lord Krsna's devotional service. Today is a very special day. It's the disappearance day of three great Vaisnavas, one of whom is a disciple of an associate of Lord Caitanya. Shyamananda Pandit, who helped bring the works of the acaryas with Narottama Dasa Thakura and Srinivasa Acarya. His disciple was Rasikananda, his chief disciple. He had thousands of disciples. Rasikananda was born as the son of a very wealthy feudal landlord. He was married to Icchadevi. As soon as he met Shyamananda, immediately he knew, his hairs were standing on end. Immediately he knew there was a connection from a previous life, this was his preceptor. He immediately surrendered and begged Shyamananda for initiation, Shyamananda initiated him and his wife. He became Rasikananda and she became Syama Dasi. Rasikananda and Syama Dasi established Deities in their town where they were the lords, previously the lords. The town was so much, he said the people were so devoted to the Deities, that they changed the name of the town to Gopiballabhpur, all were in love with Gopiballabh, the dear to the gopis, Lord Krsna, hoping that all the townspeople would also develop this love for Radha and Krsna. Somehow I have a really great fortune that Prabhupada made me the life chairman of the Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust and gave some of his guru daksina as the seed capital. One of the assignments he gave was to fix up the temples, preserve the ancient temples of Gaura Mandala Bhumi. So somehow this trust has been fixing up the original temple of Rasikananda, which is five hundred years old now, putting up a wall around it, fixing it up. We did so many services, so somehow I got a little mercy there. Rasikananda was taken to Radha-Gopinatha, Ksira-cora Gopinatha. After Lord Caitanya and Madhavendra Puri visited. Gopinatha stole the ksira, everyone knows that famous story. If you don't, have someone tell you because if I tell it it will take too long. Anyway, the basic thing was, just the short form of it: Madhavendra Puri wanted, since we are talking about Deities, he wanted, everyday they offered condensed milk sweet to this Deity of Gopinatha. Madhavendra Puri was coming from the Sri Nathaji deity. The Gopalji deity, who is now known as Sri Nathaji, was in Vrindavan. He thought, "I'd like to know what this tastes like so that I could offer it to my Gopal deity. Wow! I just committed a big aparadha! It's bhoga. It's an unoffered offering and I thought, 'How would it taste?' This is a big offense. I am an aparadhi." So he went out and he was chanting his japa and thinking, "Krsna forgive me. I am so offensive." Then the Deities came in the dream of the pujari that night and said, "We took one of the pots of ksira and put it under our cloth. You can come and get it. In the market there is a devotee called Madhavendra Puri. You can give it to him." He wasn't thinking about tasting it to enjoy it. He was thinking about offering it to Krsna. So there was really no offense, but he was very humble about the whole thing. So this pujari woke up. Hours had passed since this Deity stole the offering. He took his shower, got dressed in clean cloth, went, opened the temple, looked, and sure enough, behind the dhoti of Gopinatha, there was the pot of ksira. So the Deity stole the ksira to give to his devotee. He went out in the market, crying, "Madhavendra Puri! Madhavendra Puri!" Madhavendra Puri said, "Yes?" No one else was there. It was like one in the morning. He was chanting his japa. He was still feeling so bad. He [the pujari] told him what happened and said, "You are the most fortunate man in the entire world. For you, the Deity has stolen this condensed milk." He gave it to him. Madhavendra Puri offered his obeisances to it, ate the ksira, kept the clay pot. He would eat a little piece of the clay pot every day. So many other pastimes with Madhavendra Puri. So this Ksira-cora Gopinatha was very famous. There was some king, maybe he was a Muslim king, I don't know. He was a Deity-hater. He was going around smashing Deities in temples. Like the Taliban in Afghanistan were smashing the Buddhas. So when the people in Remuna heard that he was coming, they hid Gopinatha under a pond three miles away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted November 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 Jayapataka Swami - "The king was so upset, "Oh I could not smash the Deity! I love smashing Deities!" What a demon, huh? Some people are like that. So then he broke the Ramacandi, the Durga Deity that was there. Later, Rasikanada was kept in-charge of that place. He had a dream to excavate the pond where that Gopinatha Deity was hidden. He recovered the Gopinatha Deity, built a temple for Gopinatha, because the temple, the other one, must have been smashed or something, and he took charge of the worship. Rasikananda and his wife made hundreds of thousands of devotees, according to the history. They were super preachers. Even Shyamananda made Rasikananda a guru in his presence. Like in ISKCON we have a few where the guru orders his disciples to take disciples. Rasikananda was one of the main examples of that kind of that the guru wants one of the disciples [unclear] preaching, so they were both preaching simultaneously in different places. Later, Rasikananda inherited the temple responsibility in Remuna. There is a famous story that one morning he was sitting brushing his teeth with a neem twing. Prabhupada used to use neem twigs. He said, "These toothbrushes are unclean, using again and again." Of course sometimes he used toothbrush, too, but that is because there was no neem twig in the West. But he would change regularly his toothbrush, not keep them until they are like rotting. But he said, "Best is the neem twig, disposable toothbrush." You chew on the end, make a brush out of it, brush your teeth, divide it in half, scrape your tongue, finished. So Rasikananda was sitting in the asrama, in the courtyard of the temple, brushing his teeth early in the morning and the villagers came, "Gurudeva! Gurudeva! There's a yogi in the village, a yogi!" "So what, there's a yogi in the village?" "He's flying!" "Not important." Another group of villagers came, "Gurudeva, Gurudeva, there's a yogi in the village and he's flying! He's got a stick under his leg and he's flying around." Like the witches, they put broomstick, but somehow, this guy put some kind of stick and sometimes people get this magical power. "It's not important." Again a third group came, "Gurudeva! There's a yogi flying, 'phush, phush, phush,' flying in the sky!" "I told you, it's not important." He took the twig out of his mouth, put it under his leg, and started flying around the asrama. [laughter] "It's not important. If it was important, I would have taught you a long time ago." Landed down again. Rasikananda Prabhu ki jai! He's one of these personalities who came down from the spiritual world to help Lord Caitanya's movement spread. It was on this day, on this tithi, he was chanting in the courtyard in front of the Gopinatha Deity. Suddenly, poof, he disappeared. He went back to Godhead. Some of his associates were so struck with separation that they also went back. His samadhi is in the temple courtyard compound of Ksira-cora Gopinatha. Today was his disappearance. Today also is the disappearance day of Jagannatha Dasa Babaji, the guru of Bhaktivinoda Thakura. Rasikananda was 1590 AC. Jagannatha Dasa Babaji was born in 1780. That was probably before the British got here, 1780 AC. And he left, that year it was 25th of February, this is tithi, 1895. So he lived to be 125 years old. He was born in Mymensingh, Bangladesh. Mymensingh is about two hours drive north of Dhaka, the capital. I went there several times to do programs. We have to find out his birthplace. I don't know if we can find it out. He a disciple of Madhusudana Babaji. He lived in Vrindavan, Kuliya, Navadvipa. Bhaktivinoda Thakura met him in Vrindavan as well as here. So we are going to go to his samadhi mandir on the parikrama on the third day. We tell a lot of pastimes about Jagannatha dasa Babaji. I don't want to spoil all those. There is his samadhi temple there and behind the temple there is the old Ganges. The Ganges at one point had a channel that ran there. He used to chant his japa looking over the Ganges. One day he was chanting his japa in great separation here in Navadvipa dhama. Radha and Krsna revealed themselves to him. Everyone knew he had realization of Radha and Krsna. He was called Siddha Jagannatha dasa Babaji. He was perfected. He had God realization while he was living. Because of his God realization, he had very much spiritual vision. One pastime I can tell, some wealthy Indian gentleman came and saw him and asked him, because at that time, in India it is quite popular that babas show a little magic and then everyone thinks, "OK they're God." Without mentioning which babas, there are a number of babas who are thought to be God or some incarnation or something. Similarly, any great Guru, they should show some magic. Even people asked Prabhupada to show magic. "I went to America with forty rupees. Now I have over forty million dollars of temples all over the world in just five-six years with thousands and thousands of disciples. What more magic do you want to see?" Devotees: Haribol! Sometimes they say that someone walks on water, so you save fifty paisa. It costs fifty paisa to cross the river by boat. So they asked Jagannath dasa Babaji to show some magic, show some miracle. He said, "No, no, I don't do that. . . . Eh, get out! Out, out!" He started with hitting his stick on the ground, "Out!" "What are you doing? There is nothing there." He said, "No, no, in Vrindavan," I forget which temple, one of these temples, "the Gokulananda temple, there is a goat who is eating the Tulasi by someone's samadhi, I am just scaring that goat away." "How can you be sitting in Navadvipa scaring a goat away from eating a Tulasi plant in Vrindavan?" So they sent a telegram to find out if it is true. They said, "Yes, there was a goat eating a Tulasi and the goat was chased away by something." But the biggest miracle for us, the most important, is that he found the birthplace of Lord Caitanya. We'll go there tomorrow morning and pay obeisances at the birthplace because on the parikrama, we are supposed to first start and end at the birthplace. The international parikrama, the day after tomorrow when we have the parikrama, we won't go to the birthplace because we'll save three miles of walking. You may not appreciate that right now, but you will the day after tomorrow. Even if you don't go on the parikrama, it is nice to go and hear from the different sannyasis about the glories of the birthplace of Lord Caitanya. He found that. He was carried on the head of Bhaktivinoda Thakura. You'll hear about that tomorrow, so I won't. So today is his disappearance day. In our own ISKCON, our own saint, Tamal Krsna Maharaja, he left the world on this holy day. When I first went to the temple in San Francisco, I saw him and I saw Visnujana. They were very impressive to me. At that time I didn't talk to them, but I saw that they looked like very enthusiastic devotees. Jayananda Prabhu was the one who talked to me. That's another story. Here in India we were together when we were building that building. These columns where Prabhupada is seated is in the Lotus Building. Behind Radha-Madhava is the Conch Building. This is the temple, separate, connecting the two. The first building we built was the Lotus Building. Prabhupada was very tight. He gave us a 600,000 rupee budget to build that building, which was about, in those days, about seven and a half rupees per dollar, so 600,000, that's less than a 100,000, maybe 85,000 or something dollars. Now it's forty-four, forty-five rupees a dollar, forty-two, I don't know the latest rates, but in those days it was seven and a half, maybe. I don't know. At one point it was seven and a half. Of course it's been changing. So we decided we wanted to cut the money, we wanted to really save the money, so we decided we'd go out with the steel in the trucks. Tamal Krsna sat in one truck and I sat in another truck. There was one other devotee, I don't remember who, was in the third truck. The three of us were escorting the steel. Why do you have to escort the steel? Who would steal steel? Along the way, they stopped, after the weigh bridge, they weigh. We had the right amount of steel. The weight was OK. The drivers offered us glasses of milk at the Punjabi Dhaba. We were traveling the whole day, we haven't eaten anything, so a little milk. Milk you can take from anybody. So we decided to take a little milk. Then somebody came and whispered in my ear because I was the only one who knew Bengali, "They are stealing your steel. They are unloading it from the trucks and throwing it in the ditch. They will pick it up later." So we ran out. You can imagine Tamal Krsna at that moment. We found they were stealing, trying to unload the steel. Like that, we were together many times, many days, getting cement, getting steel, getting stone chips. He was helping us. He was a great strategist, great preaching strategist. Some points he was here in India in the beginning. Before that I was temple president in Calcutta. It was very hard to please him. I was not very efficient. He was a very efficient person. He really wanted to do the right thing for Prabhupada. Sometimes I'd get chastised. That was his special mercy. But something I never minded because everything he was trying to do for Prabhupada. In the end, last days, he was serving Prabhupada so nicely. He was anticipating. Prabhupada said, "First class disciple knows what the guru wants even without him telling." It seemed he would always anticipate what Prabhupada wanted. Sometimes Prabhupada wouldn't say anything, he was just lying there in Vrindavan. He would go, [motions]. So like, what does that mean, "Bring me water? Close the window?" He figured out. I was amazed. Like that, "Go and close the window." How did he do that? He was like that. So many times he would ask Prabhupada, "Do you want this, do you want that something?" In the last days, when he was here, he was just, I don't know if he graduated or he was about to graduate as a PhD from Cambridge. He came here and he was treating everyone, he started these kirtans that we should come and get more absorbed in chanting the Holy Names. For a couple of years he was having this chanting, really going deep into the nectar of the Holy Name. One day he went with me to the Ganges. We took our holy dip together. He was very especially loving and affectionate during his visits. I'm remembering how he was the one who made the six buses on the Radha-Damodara party. Was it six? Prabhupada initiated, I think, one hundred and fifty devotees at one time, Chicago, installed Radha-Damodara. Many amazing things. Later Prabhupada asked him to go to China. He opened up China. Prabhupada suddenly took him away. He left his body in the holy place of Phulia where Haridasa Thakura was chanting 300,000 names in a cave, just about a kilometer from there. So today is his sacred disappearance day. Devotees should go and pay their obeisances to his samadhi. Previous years we had very big celebrations for his disappearance. Today is a day when many people, three of our Vaisnavas left and went back to Godhead, so it must be a special day for going back, just before the Gaura Purnima. So this verse we read today, Vidura is also visiting the holy places, chanting. I hope that your pilgrimage, coming to Mayapur, seeing Radha-Madhava, seeing Panca-Tattva, the other deities, Prahlada-Nrsimha, Jagannatha, Baladeva, Subhadra, and other deities while you are here, will purify you. These deities can grant your wishes. Try to ask for something Krsna conscious. Don't ask for something ordinary that you can get just by your karma. Get the mercy to chant and hear and serve and achieve pure devotion for the Lord. Very important verses here. We are learning from Vidura how all the temples are ananta-linga. I remember once Prabhupada was telling us, we were at an old temple in Panihati, he said, "Look at, it's a five hundred year old temple, but they are still worshiping." The temple was rundown. He said, "At least they are worshiping. I don't know, we are . . . ." ISKCON was only ten years old. He said, "What will happen after twenty-five years? What will happen after a hundred years?" Will the devotees keep worshipping the deities? Will they be careful?" He told us to, "Install a deity you are very enthusiastic, utsaha, enthusiasm, but then later on you may think that the guru, 'Why he has given me all this burden? I have to get up early in the morning. I have to wash the glasses and the plates, make the offering. So much service to do.' If you start thinking like that, then everything is lost. [We should think,] "The guru is giving me this great fortune, this Deity. I get to serve the Deity, serve Krsna's incarnation, arca-avatara. One of the eight kind of incarnations is the worshipable deity. So Prabhupada is saying, "Utsaha, enthusiasm, and later if you are in maya, it becomes nigraha, neglect, offense." Sometimes disciples ask me, "Can I worship Radha Krsna? Can I install?" Who will maintain? Like you go to the temples in Vrindavan. We inherited one temple in Bangladesh where there are a thousand deities. If someone wants a deity, we can give you, little donation for the temple, but you have to take very nice care. There is the main deity that was installed by some rich, wonderful devotee, built a big temple, but over the years, people could not maintain the small deities. The children were not devotees anymore. Like we want our children to take on the worship. So they came and leave an endowment to take care of the Deities. Now it's got a thousand deities. Then they gave to us. Now we have a thousand. You've got to wash them with a hose or something. We don't have a hose, I mean, it's like so many deities. When we took it, it was really run down. Some of these, many of these grhasthas, gurus who were also grhasthas, great pujaris were also grhasthas. People should also give some time to do the deity worship in the temples. Some of the big temples, here we have enough brahmacaris. Some of the grhasthas also come. In Mayapur, Vrindavan Prabhupada said male public worship in the main temples because of the culture, but in other temples, the ladies, too, they worship. That's also important. Everyone in the community should share this burden of love. It's a loving service. How much mercy you'll get by worshipping the deities, it's incalculable. So Thank you very much. Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare - Jayapataka Swami<!-- / message --><!-- sig --> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted November 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 "Let us keep begging for Lord Krsna's mercy upon our Gurudeva to recover" - Ratnavali dd. It is all in the hands of the Doctors, the prayers of the devotees and the will and ultimatly the inconceivable plan and mercy of Krsna. Saturday, November 01, 10.00 pm: Dr P.P Ashok had visited the hospital around 9pm and was calling Guru Maharaja for which Guru Maharaja just opened his eyes for few seconds and just moved his head few times. Doctor will wait and see for tommorrow. Right now the BP is stable. Let us keep begging for Lord Krsna's mercy upon our Gurudeva to recover. I found some nice quote from Srimad Bhagavatam, regarding taking shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord by chanting His holy names and praying to Lord Narasimhadeva for protection. Although it is a long quote it is appropriate and encourages us to chant the holy names for our Guru Maharaja. "In the Skanda Purana, as well as in other Puranas, there is the following statement: maha-bhagavata nityam kalau kurvanti kirtanam. "During Kali-yuga the great devotees of the Lord always engage in kirtana, chanting the Lord's holy names." It is the nature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead to be merciful, and He is especially merciful to those who, in a helpless condition, take complete shelter of His lotus feet. One can immediately take shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord by chanting His holy names. According to Sridhara Svami, even in previous ages such as Satya-yuga it was not possible for the living entities to achieve the perfection that is available in Kali-yuga. Srila Jiva Gosvami has explained this as follows. In former ages such as Satya-yuga human beings were perfectly qualified and easily performed even the most difficult spiritual processes, meditating for many thousands of years practically without eating or sleeping. Thus, although in any age one who completely takes shelter of the Lord's holy name gets all perfection, the highly qualified inhabitants of Satya-yuga do not consider that merely moving the tongue and lips, chanting the Lord's holy name, is a complete process and that the Lord's holy name is the only shelter within the universe. They are more attracted to the difficult and elaborate yoga system of meditation, complete with sophisticated sitting postures, painstaking control of the breath and deep, extended meditations in trance on the Personality of Godhead within the heart. In Satya-yuga sinful life is practically unheard of, and therefore people are not afflicted with the terrible reactions seen in Kali-yuga, such as world war, famine, plague, drought, insanity, etc. Although in Satya-yuga people always worship the Personality of Godhead as the ultimate goal of life and meticulously follow His laws, called dharma, they do not feel themselves to be in a helpless condition, and thus they do not always experience intense love for the Lord. However, in Kali-yuga living conditions are so unbearable, modern governments are so obnoxious, our bodies are so ridden by physical and mental disease, and even self-preservation is so troublesome, that the conditioned souls intensely cry out the holy name of Krsna, begging for relief from the onslaught of this age. The members of the Krsna consciousness movement ISKCON have vivid and unforgettable experiences of the terrible contradictions inherent in human society in this age, and thus they are firmly convinced that there is nothing to be achieved except the mercy of the Supreme Lord. In ISKCON centers throughout the world we observe wonderfully ecstatic kirtana performances in which men, women and children from all walks of life chant with startling enthusiasm the holy names of Krsna and dance in ecstasy, becoming completely indifferent to so-called public opinion. In America a prominent professor from Oberlin College visited a Hare Krsna center in California and was astonished by the enthusiasm with which the devotees chant the holy name of Krsna in their congregational performances. Thus, due to their helpless and pathetic condition, the living entities in Kali-yuga have great impetus to surrender fully to the holy name of Krsna, putting all of their hope and faith in the Lord's holy name. Kali-yuga is therefore the best age because in this age, more than in Satya-yuga or other ages, the conditioned souls become disgusted with the kingdom of illusion and surrender fully to the Lord's holy name. This status of full surrender is called paramam santim, or supreme peace. Srila Madhvacarya has quoted a passage from the book called Svabhavya to the effect that a bona fide spiritual master in disciplic succession is able to understand the mentality and capability of his disciples and engage them in worshiping the particular form of the Lord suitable for them. In this way the spiritual master destroys all obstacles in the path of his disciples. The general rule is that one must worship the particular form of the Lord that appears in the current yuga. One may also offer his love and worship to other forms of the Lord that appear in other ages, and specifically one is recommended to chant the holy names of Lord Nrsimhadeva to get all protection. Practically all of these injunctions are being carried out within the ISKCON movement. Within the Krsna consciousness society, men, women and children are all being engaged in worshiping the Lord according to their particular natures. In addition, according to Caitanya Mahaprabhu's order, we are worshiping Balarama and Krsna, who appeared in Dvapara-yuga, because They are the original Supreme Personality of Godhead. Similarly, by chanting the Dasavatara-stotra, jaya jagad-isa hare, and by reading Srimad-Bhagavatam, the members of ISKCON worship all of the plenary expansions of the Personality of Godhead. And after every arati performance devotional prayers are duly chanted to Lord Nrsimhadeva for protection of this movement, which is so essential to human society. SB 11.5.38, SB 11.5.39, SB 11.5.40, SB 11.5.38-40 Your humble servant, Ratnavali dd<!-- / message --><!-- sig --> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted November 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 Maharaja is not responding to verbal commands Doctors say Maharaj is very critical. The Hinduja doctors are giving the best treatment possible. We now have to only wait and see. Everyone please keep praying to Lord Caitanya and Srila Prabhupada Message from Dr Madhavananda prabhu Dr Madhavananda prabhu from the Bhaktivedanta hospital although in Vrindavan Yatra is always in touch with the Hindhuja doctors and the doctors from America. They constantly discuss regarding Guru Maharaja's situation and the treatment to Guru Maharaja is given accordingly. Dr Madhavananda prabhu is requesting us not to panic and just keep praying to Krishna positively. Guru Maharaja is not an ordinary person. He is under the divine protection of Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu. He is very dear to Srila Prabhupada and all the devotees. Let us all pray intensely for Guru Maharaja's recovery. If Krishna wants anything is possible. It is upon His sweet will. Your humble servant, Ratnavali dd Sunday, November 02, 1.30 pm: Dr. B S Singhal was brought to the hospital this afternoon by Braja Hari prabhu, the Temple President of ISKCON Mumbai and also a senior disciple of Jayapataka Swami Guru Maharaja. Dr. B S Singhal is the Hon Chairperson of MSSI-Mumbai. He is a renowned Neurologist at Bombay Hospital. He examined the reports and as well as Guru Maharaja's present condition. Since Guru Maharaja is not responding to verbal commands he says it is very critical. He said that the Hinduja doctors are giving the best treatment possible. We now have to only wait and see. Your humble servant, Ratnavali dd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted November 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 <!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->Maharaj has again showed slight signs of improvement however; the therapeutic process will take weeks if not months. That is as long as there is no more medical set backs and the damage already caused is able to heal. Frankly, it does not look good materially but Spiritually, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. Last update: (03-Nov-08, 07.30 a.m. report) Ratnavali dd: Yesterday around 12am (midnight) by the mercy of Sri Sri Radha Rasabihariji, Jayapataka Maharaja opened his eyes. The nurse went and informed the servant of Maharaja who is usually in the waiting room. No attendant is allowed to be inside after 11pm in the night. During the day only one attendant is allowed to be besides Maharaja. The attendant is generally reading Caitanya Caritamrta to Maharaja (even if conscious or not conscious) or he is chanting his japa along with Srila Prabhupada’s japa which is constantly being played. So the servant rushed inside and opened the Caitanya Caritamrta and showed Srila Prabhupada’s picture in the book to him. Maharaja looked at the picture for a while and he wanted to say something but he was unable. The nurse wanted to test the level of consciousness of Maharaja. She asked him to raise the left hand and Maharaja slowly lifted his left hand. When he was asked to lift the right hand because of the swelling he wasn’t able to. Then she asked to lift the right and left legs. Maharaja was trying but he was unable to. Since for the three days he hasn’t been conscious and there were no movements so he his weak right now. He is only 5% conscious right now. As long as Maharaja is with life support and in ICU it is very critical. The conscious level keeps fluctuating therefore we should keep praying and chanting for Jayapataka Maharaja intensely until he comes out of the ICU. Your humble servant, Ratnavali dd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhaktajan Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 1) You must talk to Maharaj--talk one-on-one directly [as if he hears you perfectly well]--engage him in a dialogue and thus speak aloud what you know he would say, if he could. Since his subtle body is still intact and whole --you can be confident that his auditory senses are accessable to him. Re-assure him of his resposibilities are being taken cared of in his absence, Yet engage him with gentle confidential chasetisements (from brother-to-brother) Ask him advise that his subtle mind will consider. Yet don't cause anxiety--remind him that he is getting so much rest and attention, and it is to be expected for such situations. Of Course, continue to Sing bhajans & Read Bhagavad-gita aloud to him chapter after chapter. Ask him questions and then presume to speak aloud to him his own opinions & remarks. 2) Massage his feet from each toe-to-legs, Move legs, individually in the same way as a standing squat is done. Also, Use a hair-Brush to message him— starting at the feet working to the center of Torso. Do the same with the hands —and then moving toward the shoulders. This will activate lymph glands to evacuate in conjunction with promoting circulation. Massage his arms from shoulders-to-finger tips. Massage his shoulders and then neck and then scalp and then cheeks/jaw and temples. This should awaken/arouse him or cause restlessness in his deep-sleep-state. Any and all of the above should be done at regular intervals--The assumption is that he is in a semi-conscious state trapped by irresolvable concerns that are all the more complicated by overwhelming obligations--he knows this, so be diplomatic when appealing for him to muster the determination to re-awake. Wellwishers always praying for Maharaja's happiness, Bhaktajan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted November 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 <!-- / icon and title --><!-- message --> "Dr Madhavananda prabhu is requesting us not to panic and just keep praying to Krishna positively. :pray: :pray: :pray: :pray: :pray: :pray: :pray: Srila Jayapataka Maharaja is not an ordinary person. He is under the divine protection of Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu. He is very dear to Srila Prabhupada and all the devotees. Let us all pray intensely for Guru Maharaja's recovery. If Krishna wants anything is possible. It is upon His sweet will". Your humble servant, Ratnavali dd <!-- / message --><!-- sig --> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted November 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 H. H. JAYAPATAKA MAHARAJ’S STATUS REPORT IS NOW STABLE, 04-Nov-08, afternoon Last update By Dr Madhavananda das, Director of Bhaktivedanta Hospital Maharaj’s consciousness has been stable and he responds to verbal commands by opening his eyes or by facial expression. This has been up and down and sometimes he is responsive and sometimes he is unresponsive. He has been moving his left hand, the other limbs are not moving and is a matter of concern. The neurologist Dr PP Ashok and the itensivist Dr Hegde are monitoring him closely. According to them things are taking their natural course and recovery is a lengthy process. Even though a decline in consciousness is observed since the last 3 days and Maharaj remains critical, and he is in a state where things may go wrong, there is no reason to believe that he will not recover. The prayers must go on and that is the only factor which will change the course of events. Overall it can be summarized that • Maharaj’s condition is critical but stable • There is no further deterioration • He still responds to commands but not as much as 4 days back. • His blood pressure and other parameters like blood sugar, potassium levels, platelets are stable. • Tomorrow they will again try to wean him from the ventilator. • The doctors from Bhaktivedanta Hospital are constantly in touch with the treating doctors. • Prayers must continue. (04-Nov-08, 09:00 a.m. report) Ratnavali dd: Jayapayaka Maharaja’s consciousness level is fluctuating. The whole day yesterday Maharaja was only in the sleeping state, no response until 6.15pm. At 6.15pm when a devotee was reading Caitanya Caritamrta he opened his eye and upon the instruction of the nurse when the devotee asked him to lift his left hand he slowly lifted but he couldn’t move his other limbs although he was trying. Soon after that Maharaja again went to the sleeping state. As per the doctor Maharaja’s general body conditions like BP, sugar level, pulse rate etc are stable except he has some chest pain. At 2.30 am there was another devotee who was reciting Caitanya Caritamrta to Maharaja saw him opening his eye for 10min without any movement of eyelids and also no other bodily movements. Like this there is fluctuation of consciousness level. The different doctors are going to meet today and later we will be sending it to you their report. Your humble servant, Ratnavali dd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted November 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 More messages from devotees Dear Prabhus and Matajis: The new Total is 8,022 You are growing up your efforts Daily Average is growing too More an More devotees are Joing us chanting Nrsimha Kavaca everyday Many devotees are chanting on daily basis and sending dalily reports, that´s the way The Love of our Guru Maharaja is all around Hare Krsna your servant Atmananda Das Pamho.AGTSP. I was amazed when I met one very nice Godbrother Nitai Daya Pr. from Bosnia who woke up yesterday 1 am to chant 108 Narayana Kavachas uninteruptedly for GM protection. Took him 9 hours. When GM got ill his intense chanting inspired me to also do something beyond my normal abilities. The other devotee is chanting 250 Narasimha Kavachas daily, one doing practically all day chanting. I personally am chanting mula mantras of Sudarshana, Narasimha and Varaha for GM protection summing up 20000 to 30000 daily. Takes me few hours. If anyone has free time chanting of extra gayatris, Gopal mantras, Narasimha mula mantras, etc. certainly will be very powerful. Some may be feeling more confortable to chant longer mantras- etc few verses or like kavachas, some more short like worship- mula mantras, or the ALL POWERFUL HOLY NAME. No limit to what we can do for GM as seva. Your servant Damana Krishna das Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted November 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 <!-- / icon and title --><!-- message --> As per the doctors the brain stem haemorrhage recovery is a slow process, please keep praying intensely to Prabhupada and Krsna Latest update (05 Nov - report) By gopijana on Fri, 2008-10-24 18:29. Dr. Madhavananda prabhu will be giving the official report today in the afternoon at 1pm. Everyday we will get the report once from him unless if there is more than once he has to inform us. As soon as I get his report I will be forwarding it to you all. As per the doctors the brain stem haemorrhage recovery is a slow process. Health Update for HH Jayapataka Swami By HH BPSwami on Wed, 2008-11-05 12:00. Maharaja's rate of improvement is very slow. His blood pressure, blood sugar, platelets, etc. are stable. We have consulted other neurologists and surgeons in India, from Delhi, Bhubanesvara, Tirupati, Mumbai, Bangalore, etc. Everyone is of the same opinion: the situation is very critical Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted November 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 The wonderful Biography of Jayapataka Swami Maharaja "I went to your country with a mission & you all good souls were sent by Krishna to me." Srila Prabhupada One of the good souls sent by Krishna to Srila Prabhupada is His Holiness Tridandi Biksu Jayapataka Swami Maharaja who has been serving Srila Prabhupada as a "selfless worker" over the last 33 years. Birth, Childhood and Education Jayapataka Swami was born John Gordan Erdman on April 9, 1949 (the ekadasi after ramanavami) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA to John Hubert and Lorraine Erdman. He was born into opulent surroundings, his father's father being the founder of a large paint factory, which was a multi-million dollar concern at the time of his birth. Later HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja was glad to see that his name - Gordan John (Gour Dhan Jan) - already suggested what Srila Prabhuapda confirmed, that he and two other devotees were formerly associates of Lord Caitanya and that they had taken their birth in the west to facilitate spreading Krishna consciousness around the world. When Jayapataka Maharaja was eleven years old, at the suggestion of his grandfather he cured himself of a skin disease by calling on the name of God. At 14, he graduated almost effortlessly in the very top of his class from St.John's academy, a college preparatory school. He was offered full scholarships including tuition, books, fooding, lodging plus incidental expenses by several major universities around America. He accepted admission into Brown University. There, as a fresh enrollee, he was so much moved by a guest lecture on the life of Buddha that he lost all interest in his studies and began searching for a spiritual teacher. After some time of searching and austerity he concluded he would have to got o India to find his teacher. As he was preparing to leave for India, he met the devotees of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, founder acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, doing kirtan and distributing BTGs at the park. When one devotee approached him to take a copy of the BTG, he was stunned to see the tilak on his face and experiencing some strange feelings he began to run. After running a few minutes, he stopped to contemplate on what he had seen and how he had been so much affected. It was the experience of seeing something after a long time, a re-awakening of something that had been dormant and hidden from his memory. He walked back to the park but by then the devotees were gone! There began his search for the Hare Krishna devotees. Since ISKCON was not very well known, he could not find them for a long time. It was finally during the Ratha-yatra preparations in San Francisco that he found the location of the ISKCON center. He came to the temple where HG Jayananda prabhu was making the ratha cart for Jagannatha. HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja was drawn into service of the Ratha by Jayananda prabhu. Later he met Srila Prabhupada who encouraged him by inviting him to take prasadam with him and making sure he got more than just generous servings. In just two months after visiting ISKCON, HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja decided to commit himself to the principles of ISKCON. Jayananda prabhu shaved his head and everyone was surprised to see that within two months of coming in contact with ISKCON, he had shaved up and joined in. In 1968, Gordan John took first initiation in Montreal, Canada and was given the name Jayapataka dasa brahmachari and he was very soon awarded 2nd initiation in New York. Several years later, while discussing a difficult situation in Mayapur, Srila Prabhupada remarked upon the name 'Jayapataka' as follows: Jayapataka Maharaja: You gave me the name Jayapataka. I hope that name comes true, that there will be victory. Prabhupada: It has already become so. Jayaptaka Maharaja, (then Jayapataka dasa) began to render a number of services for ISKCON and Srila Prabhupada. The first most important was the service as the president of ISKCON Montreal. Srila Prabhupada wrote him in a letter, "For the present I think you cannot leave Montreal… Your service is much too valuable there." While in Montreal, His Holiness was was engaged in the service of printing books and dispatching them to other ISKCON Centres around the world. In a letter dated 6th October 1968, Srila Prabhupada wrote him, "I am interested in starting the press, so if you can manage it will be very nice." His service to the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust continued in India and continues until today as he is one of the trustees of the BBT. Later, on the instruction of Srila Prabhupada, HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja went to Toronto to open a center there. When Jagadish took over the Toronto center as president he wrote to Srila Prabhupada enquiring about his service and Srila Prabhupada told him to go to India on a long visa as "we have a great deal of work to do there". Jayapataka Maharaja's flight to India gives already the hint of his expertise in traveling with the most mileage and least expense possible. He flew for 48 hours in what was the "cheapest flight in history" flying Montreal - London - Brussels - Bombay - Calcutta. At Calcutta, Jayapataka Maharaja began to learn Bengali by going out to buy fruits and vegetables. Along with the other devotees, he conducted house programs, organized pandal programs, and personally went out on nagar sankirtan and book distribution though there was so much violence in the city. Soon the devotees found a new place in Mayapur and Srila Prabhupada arrived 29th August 1970 in India. When he arrived, it was known that Srila Prabhupada had already given sannyas initiation to 9 persons in the US. Srila Prabhupada one day called Jayaparaka das and asked him if he would take sannyasa and in response he said, "Yes, Prabhupada whatever you like". Thus on the day of the most auspicious Radhashtami in 1970, in Calcutta, Srila Prabhupada personally performed the fire yajna and Jayapataka dasa got his sannyas initiation. This 12th sannyasi disciple of Srila Prabhupada would be henceforth known as Tridandi Biksu Jayapataka Swami. Arriving in Mayapur and eternal service to the holy Dham When ISKCON got a land in Mayapur HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja went there on the instruction of Srila Prabhupada. When he first arrived in Mayapur, understanding that he was in the holy land, he offered his obeisances and then dipped his head into the cool Ganges mud to get the blessings, recollecting how Akrura, when he entered Vrndavana, saw the lotus footprints of Krsna in the holy mud of Vrndavana. There were 5 other devotees with HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja in Mayapur. As funds were short, HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja began engaging in agriculture. He studied several books, learnt different methods and got the best crop. Local farmers were surprised and wanted to learn from him. This helped build a lasting relationship with the local people. Maharaja taught them modern techniques of agriculture and the farmers taught him Bengali. He began to give classes in Bengali where his few listeners would correct him in his language and soon he began to perfect his knowledge of the language. Jayapataka Maharaja had wanted to learn even in 1968 when he was in the West but it did not seem necessary there. His desire was fulfilled automatically when he was sent down to Bengal by Srila Prabhupada. Life in Mayapur in the initial days was very austere and full of different types of dangers. Devotees would sleep on the floor of a grass hut. Since they were living on their own crop, they would have to eat the same vegetable for three months. Once when Srila Prabhupada was there a large cobra was found in his toilet. Prabhupada called out to Jayapataka Maharaj and he very quickly managed to save Prabhupada. Eventually they got a three-room warehouse built by the main gate. Jayapataka Maharaja soon began to oversee construction work in Mayapur and the artistic lotus building was built. But envious circles began to give the devotees a lot of trouble. With permission from Srila Prabhupada and the police, HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja kept a gun for protecting ISKCON devotees and property. As a devotee who was with him at that time remarked, "He (Jayapataka Maharaj) was a great shooter". Jayapataka Maharaja also formed different teams of devotees called "Krishna teamArjuna team" etc to keep guard at night. Jayapataka Maharaja was very meticulous with all his services at Mayapur. He was very careful that not an anna was unnecessarily spent. He worked hard day and night and would most often be at least two hours late for his prasadam. Devotees who worked for him always found that when they took some matter to him, he not only solved it but also added new dimensions of expansion to it. An early devotee who worked with him remarks, "There are very few people who care from the bottom of their heart about ISKCON Mayapur. Jayapataka Maharaja's experience, loyalty and capacity of Mayapur in-house are unparalleled." Preaching in India With the permission of Srila Prabhupada, Jayapataka maharaja applied for Indian citizenship. This meant that he could not leave the country. He utilized this time for traveling within Bengal into the villages preaching and distributing books. Srila Prabhupada told Jayapataka Maharaja to distribute 10,000 big books and 100,000 small books every month. He found unique ways of distributing books such as market-place distribution, pandal programs, festival programs and nama hatta. Maharaja made it a point to preach not only in the cities but also in the interiors of India, in the villages. Kingdom of God Srila Prabhupada had the vision of a Temple of the Vedic Planetarium to be built in Mayapur. He was talking to the scientists and telling them to figure out the 5th canto and build the planetarium and he also told Jayapataka Maharaja to figure it out. One time when Jayapataka Maharaja came into the room to see Srila Prabhupada, he said, "I have given you the kingdom of God. Now develop it". Jayapataka Maharaja found it as a serious and at the same time humorous statement. During the period of the initial development of Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir, the presiding deitis of the mandira, Sri Sri Radha Madhava, were brought to Mayapur and Jayapataka Maharaja recognised Them from a dream he once had years ago while preaching in the West. In 1977 ISKCON Mayapur was attacked by the local villagers. They tried to take away everything and devotees were arrested. At that time HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja got the locals mobilized and organized a big procession from Mayapur to the Chand Kazi samadhi and then to the Jagannatha temple. About 25,000 people participated in the march, which consisted of 168 kirtan groups. Namahatta In Los Angeles in 1970 before Jayapataka Maharaja had come to India, Prabhupada had stopped in front of a church and said that in the future there'd just be a few devotees in the temples but so many would be practicing in their homes. At that time it was hard for Jayapataka Maharaja to understand this as most devotees were living in the temple and there was no congregation. However, the protest march and the discovery of the 168 kirtan groups, and his services of book distribution, pandal programs, house programs and enrolling Life Members helped him understand that there were so many people who were interested in Krishna and that they needed to be given more care. To engage all these devotees and give them training, first HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja considered making an ISKCON Sankirtan Organization or ISO. Srila Prabhupada not only gave his blessings for this project but also told him that the villagers could come to the temple, stay for a few days, get the idea about Krishna Consciousness, and go back to their villages and establish the same thing in their own village. After Srila Prabhupada's disappearance HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja got the Gaudiya Patrika from Bhakti Caru Maharaja, which explains in detail the system of Namahatta preaching. This inspired Jayapataka Maharaja to establish, expand and develop this method of preaching. In the recent times, Jayapataka Maharaja has also developed the system of Bhakti Vrksa preaching which assists namahatta preaching by enabling wider preaching and giving intensive and personal training to devotees so that everyone gets the chance to train to be a pure devotee while engaging in preaching activities. Nitai . Kamala Boat One devotee in Mayapur was touring down on the Ganga taking a boat from Padma down and this gave Jayapataka Maharaja the idea of a boat party. He got the permission of the devotees concerned and was sent enough money from New York to buy a boat. Jayapataka Maharaja personally went and bought a boat from Diamond Harbour, Habrah, to Mayapur. Here is an interesting conversation which shows Srila Prabhupada's interest in this preaching mode: Jayapataka: Would you like to see the goshala or the boat today, Srila Prabhupada? Prabhupada: Which side is boat? Straight? Bhavananda: Boat is at Hulor Ghat. Prabhupada: Boat is worth seeing. (laughter) [break] Morning walk, January 17, 1976, Mayapur. Srila Prabhupada named the boat "Nitai . Kamala". Soon a set of Gour Nitai deities appeared in Mayapur and Srila Prabhupada personally installed Them in the boat. Food For Life Srila Prabhupada wrote to the devotees in Mayapur, "I want that you shall distribute prasadam at least to hundreds of persons daily, and advertise very widely all over Nadia Province for people to come there and take prasadam daily without charge." BY 1973 Srila Prabhupada wrote to them that he was glad with the prasdam distribution reports. In 1974 Prabhupada wanted a prasadam distribution pavilion built in Mayapur where one thousand people could take prasadam at the same time. In 1978, when floods ravaged West Bengal, Jayapataka Maharaja risked his life several times, braving flood waters in inadequate boats, to deliver emergency flood relief supplies to villagers stranded on tree-tops and roof-tops. This and countless other selfless services for the masses of India caused tens of thousands of villagers to petition the Central Government to grant Jayapataka Maharaja Indian citizenship. This was granted by the Union Government Home Ministry in 1978. Jayapataka Maharaja is the world chairman for 'Food for Life' and ISKCON's Food Relief Programs. The descendant of Advaita Acharya himself, selected HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja to be in charge of the annual Santipur mass prasdam distribution program. Mayapur Mandala Parikrama and Pilgrimages Srila Prabhupada Mayapur to be a center where devotees from all over the world could conglomerate and be strengthened spiritually to continue their preaching. In March 1974, the first Gour Pournima festival was held. Four hundred devotees from America, England, Europe, South America, Australia, India, and other parts of the world joined in the festival. So, for the first time in 1974, HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja led groups of devotees on parikrama (pilgrimage) to local holy places. This visit to Mayapur would constitute the first half of the devotees' Indian pilgrimage; after ten days they were scheduled to go to Vrndavana. The Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama has been continuing ever since with the number of devotees participating increasing each year in the thousands. During these parikramas, HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja takes care of not only the spiritual earnestness of all the devotees but as a perfect host, he also sees to it that they are comfortably situated. Jayapataka Maharaja also has recently introduced the 'Ganga Safari' to visit those holy places connected to Lord Caitanya which are approachable only along the river flow. Similarly he conducts a tour of holy places in India and neighbouring countries to give the natives a chance to see how 'foreigners' are happy by following Krsna consciousness and to give the devotes more exposure to the places of pilgrimage. All these are organized very nicely and effectively. Life Chairman of Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust On November 5 1977, Jayapataka Maharaja went to Vrndavana to meet Srila Prabhupada. Prabhupada told him, "I am making Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust" and added, "you are the life chairman." Jayapataka Maharaja at thist ime also got the mandate from Prabhupada to unite the Sarasvat family, preserving the holy dham of Lord Caitanya and serving the pilgrims. The beginning of the endless travels and GBC Responsibilities Nine years after coming to India, finally in 1979, Jayapataka Maharaja got his Indian citizenship. Syamananda prabhu gave His Holiness an 'around the world ticket',encouraging him to travel. Then around 1980 Hridayananda Maharaja invited him to visit South America. That started his visits to South America, Chile, Peru, Bolivia. Later Ecuador came and other places in South America. In 1982, on the requests of Hridayananda Maharaja, Balavanta prabhu and Rupanuga prabhu, Jayapataka Maharaja made a base in South-East USA. What just started as a visit soon led to becoming a GBC in that area. In this he got established. In 1984, Hamsadutta left ISKCON and at that time there was a danger that Malaysia would be taken out of ISKCON. Then Jayapataka Maharaja was sent to Malaysia to save it and he spent 21 days there at one stretch, which was a record. Together with hari Sauri prabhu they were able to save the situation. Since then His Holiness has been looking after the preaching in Malaysia. Later on, Singapore was added. HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja is also a GBC for Assam. The large size karatalas (whompers) that adds greatly to the ecstasy of his kirtans, are a traditional type of karatal in Assam. This was presented to His Holiness in Assam. Though it is played differently in Assam than the way Jayapataka Maharaja is used to, he developed this way of playing the karatals. Jayapataka Maharaja started as GBC in East India which includes Bihar, Orissa and Bengal. From 1980 to 1999 he was the GBC for South-East USA, as well as South America. He is also the GBC for Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. Jayapataka Maharaja serves as Co-GBC in the far east. He is also the Minister of Congregational Preaching and Minister of Congregational Development, the Vice-chairman of the World Hindu Federation and Convenor of the Sarasvat Family. While stationed in India, HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja traveled all along Bengal, and Bangladesh visiting villages performing sankirtana and book distribution. Later on, once he got his Indian citizenship and was invited from several eladers to visit their countries, he began what seems his endless traveling. Traveling agents are amazed at the extent of his traveling which are also done with very careful calculations and planning to get the most mileage at the least expense. As much as HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja loves to undertake traveling to all parts of the world and accepts any harship for the purpose of preaching, it is a great austerity for him to have to hide the symbols of a vaisnava from his body when he is invited to preach in certain foreign countries. Festivals and Celebrations Jayapataka Maharaja personally loves attending ratha-yatras simply because he likes Lord Jagannatha. It was during the ratha-yatra in San Francisco that he first came into ISKCON and his first service was to build Jagannatha's rath cart. Thus he believes that it is by the mercy of Lord Jagannatha that he is a devotee. His Holiness visited Puri during the ratha-yatra in the first year of his visit to India and Srila Prabhupada also told him to build a temple for Jagannatha in Puri for which he is endeavouring. Wherever, there is ratha-yatra devotees are eager to invite HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja to attend and inspire the devotees with his ecstatic kirtan, and tireless dancing. Jayapataka Maharaja also in turn attends as many as ratha-yatras as possible and dances and sings for Lord Jagannatha forgetting his tiredness from traveling or other services. Uniting the Sarasvat Gaudiya family Initially Jayapataka Maharaja stayed in Gaudiya Matha for a few months in Calcutta and Mayapur, and earned their lifelong respect. That short period of stay in the gaudiya Math ws perhaps Lord Krishna's arangement as it has made it easier for HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja to relate with some of the Gaudiya Maths. While Srila Prabhupada was in Mayapur, since he knew Bengali, Prabhupada would send him to deliver messages to Sridhara Maharaja, Givinda maharaja and others. Thus when Prabhupada told Jayapataka Maharaja to unite the Gaudiya Matha he made an effort to connect the spiritual family. After endeavouring for more than five years finally the Sarasvat Gaudiya Vaisnava Association was formed with the blessings of Prabhupada and blessings of all the senior Vaisnavas like Bhakti Pramode Puri Maharaja and other acaryas and His Holiness is the convenor for this association. Accepting disciples On two occasions HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja recollects Srila Prabhupada telling him, "You are authorized to take disciples but actually the etiquette is in the presence of guru you shouldn't do, otherwise you are authorized." And "you are a sannyasi so sannyasi is authorized to take disciples. That's what sannyasa means but you don't take in the presence of your guru." In 1977, as Srila Prabhupada's health was getting worse, he once asked Jayapataka Maharaja "What does your astrologer say?" and Jayapataka Maharaja mentioned "that there was an astrologer in Mayapur who had read Prabhupada's horoscope to Bhavananda along with all of our Society's leaders about two weeks ago. This man said that Prabhupada was a kind of avatara especially empowered by God so that he was free to choose whether to come or go. As far as his future predictions went, he said that Prabhupada's present illness would go by November 28 when Venus entered another house, that he would take another month to recuperate, and that there would be no further illness for seven years.(from TKG's Diary) Though all the devotees were hopeful that Srila Prabhupada would recover, His Divine Grace left the planet on November 14, 1977. Earlier, HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja was one among the eleven named by Srila Prabhupada to give initiation on his behalf when he was seriously ill. Based on Srila Prabhupada's personal instructions about how sannyasis are authorized to accept disciples when their spiritual master is no more present, following in the teachings in Srila Prabhupada's books that initiation is given by one in the current link of the disciplic succession; Brahma is the original spiritual master for the universe, and since he was initiated by the Lord Himself, the message of Srimad-Bhagavatam is coming down by disciplic succession, and in order to receive the real message of Srimad-Bhagavatam one should approach the current link, or spiritual master, in the chain of disciplic succession. And the confirmation in his letters that: Generally the spiritual master comes from the group of such eternal associates of the Lord; but anyone who follows the principles of such ever liberated persons is as good as one in the above mentioned group. (Letter to Janardana New York 26 April 1968) HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja began to accept disciples as a spiritual master in the Srila Prabhupada branch of the Goudiya Vaisnava sampradaya. Several devotees who were inspired by his dedication and sincerity to ISKCON and Srila Prabhupada accepted initiation from him. Many more continue to be inspired by His Holiness and aspire to take initiation from him. His Holiness being a senior sannyasi disciple of Srila Prabhupada has also awarded sannyas initiation to 14 devotees so far: Bhakti Vidya Purna Maharaja, Bhanu Maharaja, Prabhavisnu Maharaja, Bhakti Vikas Maharaja, Mahavisnu Maharaja, Gopal Krishna Maharaja, Mukunda Maharaja, Bhakti Vrajendranandana Maharaja, Bhakti Purusottama Maharaja, Bhakti Vaidurya Madhava Maharaja, Bhakti Raghava Maharaja. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted November 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2008 Things can change so fast Maharaj is stable today. His consciousness is better. Dr PP Ashok, the neurologist was happy with Maharaj’s alertness Last update: 05-Nov-08, afternoon, HH Jayapataka Maharaj’s status report by Dr Madhavananda das, Director of Bhaktivedanta Hospital, Mumbai Maharaj is stable, even today. His consciousness is better. Dr PP Ashok, the neurologist was happy with Maharaj’s alertness. His blood pressure, blood sugar and other parameters are stable. Today onwards, they are gradually taking him off the ventilator. This process is gradual. Maharaj remains stable but critical. The prayers should continue intensely. It is the most helpful thing that can be done. PS: Madhavananda Prabhu mentioned that the report would be sent around 3pm everyday after the main doctors come and check Maharaja. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted November 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2008 No surgery can be performed on Maharaj, and there is no medicine that can be given for this kind of brain stem hemorrhage to dissolve the blood clot still there. It can only dissolve on its own over time Latest Nov 6th 2008 The brain stem hemorrhage was very serious, and if the bleeding had continued there would have been no chance of survival. Fortunately Maharaja’s bleeding has stopped, which is why there is hope of recovery. But there is no treatment for it: it has to heal on its own. That means it is completely in the hands of Sri Krishna. Intense prayer to the Lord is the only hope. The doctors are simply trying to maintain Maharaja’s health so he remains stable, so he may recover on his own. Nothing more can be done at this point. The current problem is the blood clot in the brain stem. It cannot be dissolved by medicine, nor operated upon. It has to dissolve on it’s own. At this point we have to simply wait, depending upon the mercy of the Lord. According to the doctors, even if everything goes OK it will be a long period of healing. The hospital has now allowed for a devotee to be with Maharaja always, reading Srila Prabhupada’s book and chanting. According to the doctors, only when Maharaja is free from danger and the ventilaion is removed will he be transferred to a separate room. Then more devotees can visit. After some time I will try to give some more details of how things are to be handled here in Mumbai in regards to the health treatment of Maharaja. Your servant, Bhakti Purusottama Swami Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted November 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2008 THE PERFECT DEVOTEE "Perfect means as you have heard from your spiritual master. We are not perfect, none of us, but if you perfectly follow the orders of the perfect, then you are perfect" - Srila Prabhupada. HARIKESA ONCE SAID TO SRILA PRABHUPADA HESIDENTLY: There is a question which I've always been afraid to ask, because I don't know if it's proper, but you being the external manifestation of Supersoul, if we are having questions, doubts, when, in your absence, if we are receiving indications, is there any possible way that someone who is so conditioned can have any understanding of proper action in your absence? HARIKESA CONTINUES: In other words, if I am in your absence and I am in great doubt, and I am praying to Supersoul to please save me somehow, if I receive some action which I must do or some course of action becomes obvious, should I trust that, considering that you're communicating with me, or...? PRABHUPADA: That depends on purity. If one has become pure, without any material desire, then that is possible. But if there is some material desire, we cannot expect direct communication. HARIKESA: So I have much material desire. PRABHUPADA: I do not say you or he. This is the process. This is the process. HARIKESA: But in the meantime... PRABHUPADA: Huh? HARIKESA: ...until we have reached the pure state... PRABHUPADA: In the meantime it is not possible... HARIKESA: Not possible. PRABHUPADA: ...directly. HARIKESA: So we must communicate with you verbally or through letters. PRABHUPADA: Not with spiritual master here. You cannot concoct, "Now I am getting directly." No. HARIKESA: So the nature of the communication with the spiritual master in our state is only through... PRABHUPADA: Spiritual master... Krishna is also spiritual master. HARIKESA: Oh. PRABHUPADA: But Krishna sends spiritual master, His representative, as you can appreciate, externally, directly. Otherwise, Krishna is already spiritual master. He could give you instruction from the very beginning. But why He is sending His representative? What is the use? HARIKESA: We're not able to... PRABHUPADA: Ah, because unless we are completely purified, Krishna will, does not talk directly. Therefore you have to understand Krishna through the spiritual master. HARIKESA: So when we are having doubts, the only possible way, no matter what the indications are, are simply follow your instructions in all circumstances. PRABHUPADA: Yes. HARIKESA: Right. [break] PRABHUPADA: Krishna wanted instruction of guru, not directly. HARIKESA: Krishna's... PRABHUPADA: That, that I was explaining in the morning. HARIKESA: Yes. PRABHUPADA: Yes. Chaitya-guru. One has to take the order of Krishna through the media, via media of spiritual master. HARIKESA: So all of my activities, unless they are directly following your order, are more or less a concoction of my mind. PRABHUPADA: Yes. [break] ...office, you cannot contact the proprietor directly. There are subordinate officers. Through them you have to take the proprietor's help. PRABHUPADA: The office master is there. You have to satisfy the office master. You cannot directly approach the proprietor. If you satisfy the office master, then your promotion and other things is all right. But if you want to... I have got practical experience. PRABHUPADA: One of my friend, he was working in office. So the proprietor was there and many other employees were there. So that my friend, he suggested something to the proprietor, and the proprietor immediately dismissed him: "Oh, this man want to suggest me. PRABHUPADA: Dismiss immediately. Give him his pay he will require.'' In that I have got practical experience. He later on became so sorry. Now it is the process. So this is practical. PRABHUPADA: We should not try to approach directly Krishna. That is not the right way. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu says, gopi-bhartuh pada-kamalayor dasa-dasa-dasanudasah: [Chaitanya-charitamrita Madhya 13.80] "I am the servant of the servant of.'' So you have to serve your immediate master, dasa-dasanudasah, servant of the Supreme Lord. If you want to jump over the original master, that is not good. Then you will be dismissed like, like my friend. HARIKESA: Associating with you is so wonderful, and yet... PRABHUPADA: Just like here in Vrindavana, I was here, as I am sitting here. I was sitting here in this very place. That was [indistinct]. And when I was hungry I could take my food there, same place. So that is one thing. Just like there are many persons, but because my spiritual master wanted, so I, at seventy years old, when I thought, "Now I shall go," I went, to serve the order of my spiritual master. Otherwise I am sitting here in Vrindavana. I am old man, I was chanting. Therefore, because that is my first business. HARIKESA: Were you just waiting to finish your books? PRABHUPADA: Yes. I was just creating the situation how I shall serve my spiritual master. HARIKESA: Oh. PRABHUPADA: Not that I was trying to directly contact Krishna. That was not my business. This is required. If anyone wants to contact directly Krishna, that is not possible. [break] GURU DAS: If there is a devotees who are not yet purified, if the devotee is not yet purified, why is the temple president a representative of you? If we are not at the purified stage, then why is the temple president a representative of yourself? PRABHUPADA: To carry his order. That is purification. If you create your own atmosphere, then you become impure. If you simply carry out the order of your spiritual master, then you will be benefited. If you do your own business, that is not good. PRABHUPADA: You can not do anything which is not ordered by your spiritual master. Of course, everyone should have sense. It is not that we are dull, stone. Unless it is moved, it cannot... You have got moving power. But the basic issue should be to carry out the orders of his spiritual master. That is your president. Otherwise you are not. HARIKESA: Sometimes we have the experience of someone in authority who is obviously not following your instructions. PRABHUPADA: Hm? HARIKESA: Sometimes we have the experience, someone in authority who is obviously not following your instructions. PRABHUPADA: That you have not to judge. HARIKESA: Ah. PRABHUPADA: You are not to judge. You should be, you should know that this man is appointed, and he gets here by spiritual process. I must follow. You cannot judge him. HARIKESA: Oh. PRABHUPADA: That is not your business, judging. HARIKESA: Then we simply wait for further instructions from you and keep.... PRABHUPADA: No further instructions. HARIKESA: Ah. PRABHUPADA: So long he is president you must follow him. If he is wrong, that will be corrected by the spiritual master. HARIKESA: Right. PRABHUPADA: You cannot correct him. Otherwise obedience is the first discipline. If you do not obey the representative, authority, then there cannot be any discipline. Then everything will be topsy-turvy. HARIKESA: You would rather have us follow the temple president... PRABHUPADA: Huh? Yes. HARIKESA: ...than to... PRABHUPADA: If he is wrong, that cannot... He will come out. HARIKESA: Ah. PRABHUPADA: So the steps will be taken by the spiritual master. You cannot, do not try to rectify. HARIKESA: Our advancement is the same? PRABHUPADA: Huh? HARIKESA: Our advancement... PRABHUPADA: Yes. HARIKESA: ...is going on. PRABHUPADA: You follow, evam parampara-praptam [bhagavad-gita 4.2], gopi-bhartuh pada-kamalayor dasa-dasanudasah [Cc. Madhya 13.80], servant of the servants of the servant of, then this is our. GURU DAS: That's the consideration. Advancement is [indistinct]. [break] HARIKESA: I know I am making mistakes. PRABHUPADA: Why do you preach? HARIKESA: That's my question. PRABHUPADA: Stop preaching. HARIKESA: Ah. PRABHUPADA: If you know your mistakes and you're preaching, why this nonsense preaching? HARIKESA: Preaching must be perfect. PRABHUPADA: Yes. Perfect means as you have heard from your spiritual master. [indistinct] We are not perfect, none of us, but if you perfectly follow the orders of the perfect, then you are perfect. PRABHUPADA: You should not think that "I have become perfect." Chaitanya Mahaprabhu also said, guru more murkha dekhi [Cc. Adi 7.71]. He presented Himself as fool number one. So we should always keep ourself as fool number one, that "I am not perfect. I am fool number one." But whatever I am doing I am carrying the orders of the perfect. That is my credit. I am not perfect. Suppose I give you ... five thousand dollars. That is not my money. I am not rich man. But the money is paid by somebody else and I deliver, that's all. That is my perfection. If I don't touch it, I do not take from five hundred dollars a paise even, and I deliver it, that is my perfection. I may not be rich man, but if I deliver this amount to you, in perfect order, that is my perfection. HARIKESA: Sometimes, due to my conditioning, I cannot exactly understand what you are saying. PRABHUPADA: Yes. If you cannot understand what I am saying, then you should ask repeat. Try to understand [indistinct], that "I cannot understand this, and explain." Put it to the immediate president or any Godbrother. If he still, if he cannot explain, if he feels unable, he can inquire to me. In this way. HARIKESA: What if I don't know, I haven't understood? What if I think I have understood but I have actually not? PRABHUPADA: There are many things like that. So you should try to understand it fully. Why should you understand it haphazardly? You must try to understand fully. [break] HARIKESA: ...position to criticize his Godbrothers, no matter what? PRABHUPADA: You can criticize, if you are right. You cannot criticize wrongly. conversation with Srila Prabhupada, March 16, 1974, Vrindaban, 740316RC.VRN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted November 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Quote: <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=6 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #666666 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 3ex; BORDER-TOP: #666666 1px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 3ex; BORDER-LEFT: #666666 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #666666 1px solid" bgColor=#e0e0e0>Today - We have consulted other neurologists and surgeons in India, from Delhi, Bhubanesvara, Tirupati, Mumbai, Bangalore, etc. Everyone is of the same opinion: the situation is very critical <!-- / message -->Tomorrow - who knows, he might be sitting up eating Prasadam It changes every hour but frankly, its in Krsna's hands and the prayers of the great advanced humble selfless devotees like you <!-- sig --></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <!-- END TEMPLATE: bbcode_quote --> <!-- / message --><!-- sig --> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted November 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Maharaj’s consciousness level is the same Latest update (07 Nov - report) By gopijana on Fri, 2008-10-24 18:29. By Dr Madhavananda das, Director of Bhaktivedanta Hospital, Mumbai. Maharaj’s consciousness level is the same. The different parameters are stable.The doctors are saying there is more or less no active management except nursing care which is being well taken care of.From our side, we have suggested to integrate acupuncture and acupressure along with the ongoing treatment which is to be discussed with the intensivist and acupuncturist tomorrow. ‘Get Well’ letter By gopijana on Fri, 2008-11-07 15:37. This is a ‘Get Well’ letter received from Bir Krishna das Goswami. Bhakti Siddhanta Maharaja read out this letter along with letters from Sivarama Swami and Radhanatha Swami to Jayapataka Maharaja. My dear Jayapataka Maharaja, Please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I have been praying intensely to my Deities every day for your health. It is essential that you get well as quickly as possible. I am saying » read more | Email this page | 224 reads All glories to the merciful Lotus Feet of Srimati Radharani-( Video Added) By Shyamagopika dd on Thu, 2008-11-06 13:07. Today is Gopastami. Gopastami is a special day in Mayapur as we get lotus feet(s) darshan of Srimati Radharani and Astasakhis. During Gopastami, darshan arotika is ecstatic as devotees eagerly await the opening of curtains to have this once in a year ‘Charan Darsana’. ‘May my heart chant the glories of Sri Radha's very beautiful lotus feet, which are golden above their reddish soles, and which steal away the heart of Lord Hari with their sweet transcendental splendor’. » read more | Email this page | 505 reads Srila Prabhupada Disappearance day festival Video By gopijana on Wed, 2008-11-05 13:24. Srila Prabhupada’s disciples mercifully shared sweet memories of their spiritual master Srila Prabhupada at the Tirobhav festival held in Pushpa Samadhi Mandir. HH Bhakti Charu Swami, HH Umapati Swami, HH Hanumat presaka swami, HG Jananivas pr, HG Pankajanghri pr, Hari Sauri pr, Bhavananda pr, Sree Raga pr, Suresvara pr, Madhusudana pr, Kanchanbala mataji, Ragatmika mataji and others offered glorifications. Please log on to audio lectures downloads to listen to these wonderful memories. Gauragopala pr was there in the background at Mayapur seeking the mercy of the devotees, after 15 years not even Hari Sauri prabhu new who he was. <!-- / message --><!-- sig --> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted November 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Patita Pavana Gaura Hari!! Everyone please keep praying for H.H. Jayapataka Maharaj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted November 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 Maharaja’s external condition has been pretty much unchanged for the last 15 days. Latest update (07 Nov - report) By gopijana on Fri, 2008-10-24 18:29. Bhaktisiddhanta Swami visited Jayapataka Maharaja and wrote the following note: When I saw Maharaja in the morning around 11am and again at 7:00pm he was sleeping, some coughing clearing of mucus etc, and I was a little sad to not see so much of a continuation from the previous day, however in leaving the hospital one doctor alleviated my lamentations about the fact that Maharaja’s external condition has been pretty much unchanged for the last 15 days. » read more | Email this page | 15971 reads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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