From: Ekanath Gaura Prabhu
17 Nov afternoon shift
Guru Maharaja was most conscious today. Asraya, Bhadra Balaram and myself
were in the hospital together with Damodar Pandit Prabhu (the Bhaktivedhanta
Hospital Spiritual Counselor).
7 pm: I went to the ICCU room, and Guru Maharaja was with his eyes open, and
he was observing to see who has come to see him. One of the duties of the
secretaries is to ask Guru Maharaja how he feels, etc, so we ask him and he
nodded his head to say he is ok. Sometimes when we ask him how he is, he
moves his fingers, or limbs to show he is feeling better.
I explained to him that we have a new system for communication, which is
called Camera mouse. It is a software that needs a webcam. The webcam is
used to select a part of your body which will work as a mouse. Guru Maharaja
can use his eyes or his head, or a finger as a mouse, and he can indicate
the alphabets on the computer or use any program on the computer normally.
He was happy about it. At this moment he is weak to use it but we will
trying it when he gets little stronger. Damodara Pandit prabhu also
explained to Guru Maharaja about the program and some other details.
Guru Maharaja pointed me his stomach. I asked him if he would like to eat
and he replied yes. Vasudevatmaja prabhu had prepared some prasadam for
Guru Maharaja. Since the ventilator was on a full mode we were not allowed
to feed orally any food to Guru Maharaja. The fact that Guru Maharaja is
asking for food is a good symptom. It means that his body has started to
work properly.
Later on, I came back and I told Guru Maharaja that many of his Godbrothers
and well wishers came to see him, like Sacinandana Maharaja, Radhanath
Maharaj, Radha Govinda Swami, Kavicandra Swami, Gopal Krsna Goswami,
Tirtharaj, etc.
I asked Guru Maharaja, “Did you see Sacinandana Swami in the morning?” He
was very happy and he inquired with his head if Maharaja was there. I said,
“No, he came in the morning to tell you about the dream he had with you.”
Guru Maharaja wanted to know about the dream. I told him that Maharaja will
be coming personally to tell the dream. I also said Tirtharaja came in the
morning with his wife. Guru Maharaja moved his head and hands asking me if
they were here too, unfortunally no i replied, but they send their love to
you. I said devotees are inviting you, Tirtharaja to OZ,
Bir Krishna Goswami to USA and he opened his eyes very big, and were filled
with tears/
At 7:50 pm I explained him that we have 4 shifts, Maha Varaha, Bhadra
Balarama, Vaikuntha Pati and Dharesh… Guru Maharaja moved his mouth and
said, “Dharesh?” I said yes. Guru Maharaja wanted to know if Dharesh was
there. I said he would be coming tomorrow. Guru Maharaja was happy to see
that all his servants were there with him. I took his hand and I told him,
“Guru Maharaja we are all here in the hospital with you. Not only us, all
the devotees arround the world are here with you. We love you so much, and
his eyes again filled with tears.”
Damodara Pandit Prabhu suggested that we should have a whole day program for
Guru Maharaja with devotees taking turns to read, to chant with him, to feed
him and to visit him.
8 pm: Guru Maharaja started moving his hand towards all the tubes asking me
why he has all these tubes. I told him that one is for ventilator. He
pointed the other and I said for removing the mucus and like this we went
through each one of them. Finally he moved his left hand like he wanted to
chant. So I asked him if he wanted his clicker. He nodded to say no. I asked
if he wanted Black berry. He nodded to say no. I became confused and kept
asking if he wants to chant but that’s not what he wanted. Finally I
realised he was talking about a special device that he has on his left
finger to measure the blood.