Here in Juhu temple the devotees offer Damodara lamp two times, in the
morning after Darshan arotik and as well as in the evening after Sandhya
arotik. Today the SB class was given by Svavasa prabhu, Srila Prabhupada
Disciple. After the class was finished Guru Maharaja came to the temple to
have darshan of the Deities. He offered lamps to the three presiding deities
as well as they have Vittala, Yasoda Damodara and Narasimhadeva diorama and
Guru Maharaja offered lamps to them as well.
After the morning breakfast Guru Maharaja went for the RGB, Indian GBCs and
GBC EC meetings. The morning session was between 10 – 1pm. Then there was
lunch break. The afternoon session was between 3-6pm. Guru Maharaja after
taking the lunch took some rest and again he attended the afternoon session
to catch the tailend of the meetings.
In the evening there was one more meeting which was Mayapur Vrindavan Trust
meeting. Hari Sauri prabhu informed Guru Maharaja about this meeting and had
invited him to attend if he wanted to. Guru Maharaja stayed for their
meeting as well. Although he commented later it was too much in one day for
him to attend and he plans not to stay too longer for the meetings.
While he had dinner, some of the Mumbai brahmacaris did soft kirtan. It was
sweet and Guru Maharaja seemed to have liked it. There were few guests who
had come to have his darshan. Guru Maharaja asked a devotee to give them a
mahasweet to each of them. Rasakrida Parayan prabhu, our Godbrother from
Middle East had come to see Guru Maharaja. He has been invited to take part
in the Strategic Planning Meeting.
Guru Maharaja’s feet were swollen. Rucira Rangada prabhu brought 2 buckets
of warm water with salt to soak his feet. Dhiralalit Prabhu, our Godbrother
from Mumbai, his son Raj Kiran had come along with his friend Narendran to
meet Guru Maharaja. Both of them are chanting Hare Krsna mantra. Raj Kiran
offered his first bonus salary to Guru Maharaja. Guru Maharaja asked, “Are
you sure you want to give all of this?” Raj said he wanted to give to Guru
Maharaja. Guru Maharaja gave Gauranga Mahaprabhu’s garland to both of them.
Just few minutes later another devotee had brought a garland from Nityananda
prabhu to offer to Guru Maharaja. Guru Maharaja said, “I just gave one and I
have received another!”
While his feet was soaking in the warm water Maha Varaha prabhu did a short
face therapy. He applied a medicinal cream to Guru Maharaja’s face as per
the instruction of doctor in Malaysia and also short excercises for the
face. Then Guru Maharaja went to take rest.
Your humble servant,
Ratnavali dd