Revati Raman prabhu has come to Mumbai to visit Guru Maharaja for a couple
of days. He had come from Delhi after attending the Indian RGB Meetings.
This was the first RGB Meeting that Guru Maharaja had missed to take part,
so Revati Raman prabhu was giving him a summary of the meetings.
After this Guru Maharaja was taken to physiotheraphy department. At 1.45pm
when the session was about to finish he was informed that a group of 40
devotees from Ukraine are waiting in the Jagannatha Vallabha gardens to have
a short darshan with him. They are Radhanatha Maharaja’s disciples who had
come for a spiritual trip to Mumbai, Pune yatra and also Mayapur. As they
were in Mumbai they were brought to have a look of the Bhaktivedanta
Hospital and were eager to have darshan of our Guru Maharaja. They have been
instructed previously by Radhanatha Swami Maharaja to pray for the recovery
of our Guru Maharaja from the stroke.
Ukraine devotees where performing bhajans while waiting in the gardens for
Guru Maharaja. Guru Maharaja spoke about how he is, his present situation,
how he has been taken care nicely in Bhaktivedanta hospital and how he
recovered miraculously with the prayers of the devotees and the causeless
mercy of Krsna. While Guru Maharaja spoke in English it was translated
simultaneously in Russian. Later Guru Maharaja asked the devotees if they
had any questions for him.
The devotees asked him as they are making a visit to Mayapur Dham sooner
what should be their mood. Guru Maharaja described how Lord Nityananda took
Srila Jiva Goswami on a spiritual tour to Navadvipa Dham and He was
revealing the dham to Srila Jiva Goswami. Also Guru Maharaja described
partially about the 7 visions of the Dham that was revealed in a dream to
Srinivas Acarya. In his first vision he saw the adbhuta mandir with the
dome, Sri Sri Panca Tattva and the devotees. In the second vision he saw
many levels of walls surrounding the temple which were made of gold. Taking
part at least once in Navadvipa Dham parikrama can give one the love of
Godhead. Although Guru Maharaja has been attending regularly the Navadvipa
Dhama parikrama since 35 + years, every time when he takes part in the
parikrama he gets newer and newer realizations of the dham.
The devotees asked if he had any special realization when he was unconscious
during the stroke. Guru Maharaja replied yes but he couldn’t reveal it as
Srila Prabhupada had instructed not to disclose intimate things openly.
Guru Maharaja was appreciative of Bhaktivedanta Hospital project. He said
that every month there are 25 new devotees being made in the hospital. He
recollected two incidents which he heard from the devotees in the hospital.
One person when he was trying to save a pigeon fell down and got his hand
fractured. He was later admitted into the Bhaktivedanta hospital. He became
a devotee after that. He saved the bird and he was gifted with Krsna
consciousness! Another lady was very averse to ISKCON. Her father had lung
cancer and was admitted in this hospital in ICU. As he was recovering he got
exposed to Krsna consciousness and the devotees were lovingly taking care of
his body, mind and soul. Seeing this reciprocation and getting to hear
Bhagavad Gita the lady changed her opinion about ISKCON and became a
devotee. Bhaktivedanta Hospital Ki Jai!
(Described by Ekanath Gaura prabhu and written by Ratnavali dd)