Dear Devotees,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All
glories to Guru Maharaja.
After the breakfast Guru Maharaja took darshan of the Deities and then went
to the Gym to do his physiotherapy. Around 1.30 he returned to his quarters.
Had his lunch and then took rest until 4.30. He did his walking practice and
he was about to start his excercise with a newly purchased machine from
Bangalore when we both came to his quarters at 5.30pm. There was some
problem in operating this machine and Krishnakumar prabhu from Italy who is
a technical expert in electrical and electronic equipments was fixing it. It
would take 15 minutes or so to get it fixed.
Guru Maharaja’s day is generally packed with therapy, excercises, evening
class so there is hardly anytime to do other activities like correspondence,
or meeting with devotees. Since there was a gap we took this opportunity to
discuss some matters concerning upcoming online initiation. He had earlier
asked us to download a 5minute youtube video interview of HH Radhanath
Maharaja on fox news for him to see which we had it downloaded for him. Guru
Maharaja watched this clip. Here is the url of this youtube if anyone is
interested to see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhl_DEuUIzU&feature=player_embedded. The
interview was about Maharaja’s Autobiography book “Journey Home”. Guru
Maharaja commented Fox news is the second most watched news channel in USA.
He said we could show this to Acyutananda prabhu (He is Radhanath Maharaja’s
disciple).
Just then a couple had arrived to have darshan and get blessings of Guru
Maharaja. They are from Durgapur, West Bengal. Guru Maharaja inquired about
their names for which they replied Syama Madhava das and Dayavati devi dasi.
Both Guru Maharaja and ourselves we commented it couldn’t be just Dayavati
dd. Dayavati means merciful. It doesn’t denote any personality. Guru
Maharaja asked us to check her name in the database and clarify. Luckily we
had our laptop with us at that time to check and her name was Dayavati Gopi
dd. She had taken initiation in 2003. They became extremely happy to know
her real name after so many years with the mercy of Guru Maharaja!
While this was happening the team of JPS care takers headed by Maha Varaha
prabhu had their regular weekly Sunday meeting. They discuss on how to
improve their services to Guru Maharaja and clarify any issues or
misunderstanding so that the team can effectively serve Guru Maharaja.
Guru Maharaja did his excercise on the fixed machine for a while and then
took his dinner prasad about 8pm while some devotees were singing kirtan
outside his room. After the dinner, Guru Maharaja came out to give cookies
to the devotees. Two Spanish speaking matajis, daughters of a Srila
Prabhupada disciple were there. Guru Maharaja enquired about them. He
commented that their father was Guru Maharaja’s friend. He had also come to
see Guru Maharaja but he had stomach upset due to some prasad that he had
taken earlier so he had to leave. Guru Maharaja gave thoughtfully few
cookies for him as well. Guru Maharaja went to take his rest after this.
Your humble servants,
Vaikunthapati das and Ratnavali dd
P.S.: For pictures view jpsupdates.blogspot.com