Dear Devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Guru and Sri
Gauranga. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
This is small a report of my association with Gurudeva today.
I arrived at the Hinduja Hospital at 11am and took about one hour of waiting
outside the hospital to be able to get the pass.
When I entered into the ICCU room Guru Maharaja called me and I noticed a
natural happy expression on His face. He asked me, “How are you? How was
your trip to South America?” I started relating about our tour to Chile and
Argentina and I was amazed how Gurudeva interacted so well during the
conversation. Often he asked me a few technical questions about the devotees
in Santiago, Chile and also about the farm of Mukunda Hari prabhu.
Guru Maharaja has many of his facial muscles and nerves which are not
working properly. For instance he has modulation difficulties to pronounce
certain syllables especially those with B, P and O. Also there are certain
weaknesses on the muscles of his eyes facing difficulties to move them right
or left but now he can move nicely his eyes up and down. Like that, he is
experiencing the same difficulties in other different parts of his body but
doctors are very positive and happy about Gurudeva because every single day
they can see a significant progress. For instance, just a few days ago, Guru
Maharaja started eating just 1 spoon of food a day and today I had a chance
to feed him oats at 11:30am, lunch at 2pm and dinner at 8PM and he ate so
well like any other normal person which is a very good progress. I was
feeding him like feeding a baby.
In today’s lunch Guru Maharaja particularly liked the sabji with vegetables,
peas, tomatoes, etc.and asked me who cook it? It was done by Vasudeva
prabhu. Everyday he is cooking prasadam for Gurudeva with a team of Mayapur
devotees according to the prescriptions given by the doctors. He also liked
very much the spinach subjee. Also asked which kind of rice he uses
(basmati).
I helped Guru Maharaja to do some exercise moving his hands, arms, feet and
legs and he did well. The doctor said it is a good exercise for Guru
Maharaja to talk so I made him to repeat Gauranga and the full Pancatatva
mantra. His speech is getting better. At different times of the day I asked
him to speak more.
I told Guru Maharaja that today was Ekanath Gaura prabhu’s birthday. He was
happy to know and he wanted to know where he was and what time he would
come. Then we made a “secret plan”. When Ekanath came at 8pm Guru Maharaja
pointed to him something hidden by the window. It took about 2 minutes for
Ekanath to understand and he saw a surprise gift that Guru Maharaja had for
him. He opened the gift and it was a Maha Cake from Their Lordships Sri Sri
Radha Rasabihari and everybody was so happy!
Some short stories from today:
I asked Guru Maharaja who did for you this beautiful tilak? Guru Maharaja
reply: “Bhadra Balaram”. Where is Bhadra Balaram? What time he will come?”
(he is a very dear disciple of Gurudeva)
I brought 2 anti stress Chinese metal balls for Guru Maharaja to exercise
his hands. It is a kind of physiotherapy work and he liked them but he
needed a lot of my help to be able to use them.
I showed to Guru Maharaja a beautiful drawing that a Mataji from Chile did
for Him. He was so happy with it! (please see the drawing which is attached
with this text). I described the whole drawing to Him. Guru Maharaja is in
the hospital bed and his walking stick is hidden bellow his pillow, and I
described each of those devotees depicted on the drawing (Ekanath,
Atmananda, Sarva Sakti, Divya Priya, Seva Swarupa, Maha Varaha and myself)
and he was so happy and started calling the nurses and requested me to show
the drawing to them. He asked me who did it? It is Bhaktin Monica from
Chile. Thank you Monica to give Gurudeva a few minutes of happiness!
Gurudeva was very happy to see Ikshvaku prabhu from Ecuador. He lives in
Perth, Australia and came here to serve Guru Maharaja for a week.
Tusti Mohan Krsna das was with Guru Maharaja for 40 minutes. He was amazed
of Guru Maharaja’s capacity to remember. What more impacted him was when he
arrived Guru Maharaja immediately recognized him and asked him, “You are
still here? I thought you left to Mayapur.” Guru Maharaja was informed 2
days before that Tusti Mohan Krsna das was going to represent him for the
world interfaith conference held at Sri Mayapur Dham till December 6th. He
says that Guru Maharaja’s sugar level was tested by a nurse and it was
perfect (in 120).
I told Gurudeva that devotees from Safari sent me a lot of lovely
letters and tomorrow I will read them to Him. I also got very nice letters
for him from many other devotees and well-wishers from around the world.
Today it was the first day that doctors declared that Guru Maharaja is “out
of danger”. They also say that latest by early next week Guru Maharaja will
be transfered out of the ICCU to a private room.
10pm I was leaving the hospital and Guru Maharaja called me and he held my
hand saying, “I want you to send a message to the web. Please request the
devotees to pray so I will be able to talk and walk so I can be able to
preach.” So please I beg all the Vaishnava community to please pray to the
Lord to fulfill this humble desire of Gurudeva, Srila Jayapataka Swami.
Thank you.
Your servant,
Marici das