Dear Devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
All glories to Guru Maharaja!
Last Saturday and Sunday, 23-24 January, Guru Maharaja spent his weekend
in San Deigo. He was hosted by his disciples, Yasoda Kripa devi dasi and her
daughter Jayanti Radhika devi dasi. They accomodated Guru Maharaja and all
his servants at their house.
Before that, on Friday 22nd January, the auspicious Appearance Day of Sri
Advaita Acarya Prabhu, Guru Maharaja visited the Laguna Beach temple and
gave an evening class about the glories of Sri Advaita Acarya. Guru Maharaja
was expressing his happiness for being able to have darshan of the Advaita
Acarya Deity, since in Laguna Beach temple their presiding Deities are Sri
Panca Tattva. He is sad that he feels a separation from Sri Panca Tattva
Deities of Sri Mayapur Dham, and by being in the presence of Sri Panca
Tattva in Laguna Beach, his separation is a bit pacified. A lot of devotees
came for celebration and some of them brought the offerings for Advaita
Acarya Prabhu. There were all together 200 preparations for the offering.
During the kirtana Guru Maharaja was standing a long time in front of the
Deities offering his prayers, and after that he was participating in the
kirtan by slightly waving his body to the rythm of the kirtan. That night
Guru Maharaj was hosted in the house of his Godbrother Rasaparayana Prabhu
and his wife Parvati.
The following morning, on Saturday 23rd, Guru Maharaja went to San Deigo.
He was greeted by several devotees who gathered in the house of Yasoda Kripa
Mataji and who performed an abhiseka to Guru Maharaja’s lotus feet and
guru-puja. The evening program was organized in the same house, so that Guru
Maharaja was able to take sufficient rest and do some of the homework
exercises. Around 30 devotees came for the evening program, many of them
were Guru Maharaja’s Godbrothers who greeted him with a great respect. Guru
Maharaja was talking about the glories of Advaita Acarya Prabhu, Pundarik
Vidyanidhi and Vishnupriya Devi, mentioning a story of Vedavati from
Ram-lila. He was talking about visiting the birthplace of Advaita Acarya
Prabhu while he was on safari in Bangladesh 2008. The only way to visit that
place was by helicopter, since safari was on the other side of Bangladesh.
Guru Maharaja was recollecting his memories from that unique helicopter
flight that ended up in one remote village because of the storm, and there
was one of Guru Maharaj’s disciple living in that village, and she said she
was praying that Guru Maharaja one day will visit her house, and it happened
on that day since they had to wait for the end of the storm. Devotees were
enjoying hearing about the adventourous safari and preaching pastimes that
Guru Maharaja was joyfully talking about.
On Sunday 24th Guru Maharaja gave an evening Sunday feast class in San
Deigo temple. After the class Guru Maharaja stayed in the temple room to
take prasadam togather with all the devotees, and he was talking with
devotees who approached him.
The previous weekend Guru Maharaja was invited to Sacramento where he spent
3 days. Caitanya Dasi, Congregational leader from Sacramento made very
nice arrangements and preaching programs for Guru Maharaja there. I was not
present so I not able to share more details about this trip to Sacramento.
For the appearance day of Lord Varahadeva Guru Maharaja was invited for the
house program in the appartment of Brigupati Prabhu, just accross the LA
temple. Brigupati Prabhu is a disciple of Srila Prabhupada who is actively
engaged in Srila Prabhupada’s book distribution since Srila Prabhupada was
present on the planet. His wife Chandravali dd worships 250 salagrama silas
in their home. They arranged for Guru Maharaja to do the short abishek to
their Varaha silas. After that everyone got caranamrta, and some of us got a
special darshan of some very amazing silas, by the mercy of Mataji
Chandravali.
Yesterday, for the appearance day of Lord Nityananda Prabhu, Guru Maharaja
gave an evening class in the LA temple. He was talking about childhood
pastimes of Nityananda Prabhu, about the glories of Nityananda Prabhu’s
birthplace Ekachakra Dham and about separation of Nityananda Prabhu that
inhabitans of Ekachakra felt when He left home with a traveling sannyasi.
Guru Maharaja is gradualy improving his health. His doctor is advicing him
to stay and continue with his treatment in order to achieve more results.
According to his opinion, Guru Maharaja is steadily progressing.
From now on Shraddha dasi will send the medical reports, and I will continue
with general reports about Guru Maharaja’s activities. Shraddha dasi and her
husbend Premacaru Prabhu are amongst the coordinators for Guru Maharaja’s
medical treatments here in Los Angeles.
Your servant,
Teja Gaurangi devi dasi