Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
All glories to Guru Maharaja.
Hinduja Hospital
18th Nov, 7 pm – 11 pm
7 pm: We were today on the night shift of care givers and when we arrived HH
Lokanath Swami was with Guru Maharaja holding his hand and gently touching
his head.
Since visiting hours is only between 5 to 7 pm, he told me he will leave,
and I told him that Guru Maharaja will eat now. He said “Oh, then I would
love to feed him.” HH Lokanath Maharaj in a very humble and caring way fed
Guru Maharaja for arround 30 min. This time Guru Maharaja ate a litle
more!!! Then Maharaja took Guru Maharaja’s hand and placed it on his head
asking for blessings and then Maharaja left.
After Lokanath Swami went Guru Maharaja was trying to communicate with us
during the night.
Guru Maharaja was very active and conscious. Whenever he sees a person he
asks who he is. He wants to know everything that is happening arround him.
His eyes are very active and as soon as he recognizes someone, he starts
calling him and moves his hands and head doing signals asking him different
questions. Sometimes he points his head, sometimes his stomach, sometimes he
moves his tongue like he is talking, sometimes he wants to write and other
times he moves his whole body. Like that Guru Maharaja is interacting with
us in different ways.
When we cannot understand him, he points out the alphabetic board and he
tries to indicate us the letters. It is like playing charades and guessing
what Guru Maharaja wants.
At 10:30 pm, the nurses told me to leave, because it is time to sleep. We
went to ICCU waiting room, and around 11 pm the nurses call out in the
speaker, “bed number 20, bed number 20!!!”. So we rush to Guru Maharaja’s
bed, and I saw like 3 nurses with the alphabetic board, trying to guess what
he wanted, jejeje. Finally they gave up and told us Swamiji want something.
We asked Guru Maharaja and he wanted us to turn off the lights and to
scratch his face. Guru Maharaja did not want to sleep. So I told him,
“Please it is 11 pm, it’s time to sleep.” Like always his nitya lila. But no
hope. So we started to read softly Caitanya Caritamrita, and to do massage
on his legs. Slowly he started to close his eyes and finally sleep.
19th Nov
4:30 am: We went for the morning program, and Guru Maharaja was already
awake asking questions to the nurses. We tried to guess what he wanted and
finally I told him that it is mangal arotik time. We took the picture of
Radha Madhava and Panca Tattva and started singing. He remained silent and
in a praying mood, finally we brought the picture of Lord Nrsimha, and sang
Namas Te prayers.
After the prayers I started explaining to Guru Maharaja the whole history of
what had happened from the beginning when he was admitted in the hospital
until now how he is improving alot. Guru Maharaja was listening carefully as
he always wants to know what was happening to him. Finally I told him that
we are in trouble now, because all his Godbrothers wanted to go to Europe,
USA, Oz, etc!
We would like to thank all the devotees who are caring for Guru Maharaja
especially Braja Hari prabhu and Bhakti Purushottam Maharaja who is leading
the whole team so nicely, all the Bhaktivedanta Hospital doctors lead by
Madhavananda prabhu, Pundarik Govinda Prabhu who is the supervisor and the
devotees who are behind the screen like Madhava Kanta Prabhu, Ratnavali dd,
Sarva Sakti dd, Madhuri Yamuna dd and Vasudevatmaja prabhu who are acting as
facilitators. Also special thanks to the Mayapur Brahmacaris who are
standing outside the hospital guarding 24hrs a day.
Your servants,
JPS Caregivers