Dear devotees,
Dandavat pranams.
Yesterday, 8th of April 2009, HH Jayapataka Swami left Sri Mayapur Dham
towards Coimbatore for his ayurvedic treatment, that will last till few days
before Narasimha Caturdasi, where His Holiness is scheduled to be back to
Sri Mayapur Dham. Gurumaharaja left early morning from the holy dham towards
Kolkata airport to catch the flight at 11:30 am by Jet Airways.
Since there is no direct flight to Coimbatore they had to travel via Madras/
Chennai Airport, where devotees have arranged for Gurumaharaja a big room
that was ready upon his arrival at almost 2 pm. GM after the welcome at
airport took prasad and rest till the next flight scheduled at 7:30 pm to
Coimbatore reaching at 8:30 pm.
The devotees from Coimbatore temple gave a good welcome to Gurumaharaja at
the airport and then at the ayurvedic center, headed by HH Bhaktivinode
Swami, who recently was initiated as a sannyasa during the vyasapuja
celebration. His previous name was Sarvaisvarya Prabhu.
As for the last day of activities of GM in mayapur, 07-04-2009, it was
normal with no special events. At noon Gurumaharaja met with the disciples
leaders to inform him about the result of all senior disciples leaders
meeting that was held a day before to decide on his health and the way it
has be handled.
GM also this day took prasad with the sankirtan department devotees at the
Sri Panca Tattva temple. then the highlight of that day was that GM was able
to walk 545 steps with little help of devotees at the lotus park. After he
gave darsan and then prasad while many devotees were chanting bhajans in his
room.
ys
Tustimohan krsna das.
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I am adding below a report that was sent recently on the visit of H
Jayapataka Swami to Madras / Chennai, prior to his arrival to Mayapur when
he came from Bombay to Tirupati then via madras to Mayapur.
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Hare Krishna!
Guru Maharaj arrived in Chennai last night from Tirupati around 8.30 pm.
ISKCON Chennai temple president, Sumithra Krishna prabhu went personally to
Tirupati to bring Guru Maharaj to Chennai. They left Tirupati at 5.30 pm and
reached Chennai at 9.30 pm. After a customary pada puja, guru maharaj
settled for dinner right away in his room. Only about 30 devotees were
around as we the reception and darshan has been announced for only today.
When Guru Maharaj saw me, he called out, “Hi, hello!” so informally!
Devotees all had a peek into the room as Guru Maharaj had dinner. Some were
invisibly shedding tears seeing his present condition. But of course we were
all so happy that he is with us. Having got back Guru Maharaj, everyone
wanted to feast their eyes on him every minute that was possible.
During the dinner, though the servant was feeding GM nicely, GM just picked
out his left had and started savouring the dosas and three chutneys, all
made according to his dietary requirements. His hand mouth coordination was
superb gien that he was using his left hand. It was nice to see that he was
chewing his food without any help from others, himself gently pushing up his
lower jaw. GM asked to know about each item on his plate and how it was
made.
After dinner, he gave blessings to every devotee with a neem stick. And then
after the prasadam arrived, devotees were again invited to go on a second
round of blessings.
When it was time to take rest, I heard that GM sat on a devotees hand and
putting all his weight on that hand made a joke asking him how he would
remove his hand! Devotees were delighted to see his joking mood.
We hope by all your mercy we can serve GM nicely today and take full benefit
of his association.
hare Krishna.
Yours in service,
tarini radha dd.
chennai.