pune

Day 3 – January 25, 2009 (Morning)

My obeisances to HH Radhanath Swami, HH Chandramauli Maharaj. Srinathji
Prabhu’s father had helped me to get citizenship when I was rejected by the
communists of West Bengal to get citizenship of India.

HH Radhanath Maharaj and HH Gopal Krishna Maharaj kept praying for me so
that I can recover. I am especially indebted to HH Radhanath Maharaj who
kept doctors 24 hours keeping a watch over me in Hunduja hospital. After I
was released in Hinduja hospital, I went to Bhaktivedanta hospital where I
was doing different kinds of therapy. In Hinduja, I used to see sisters a
lot. In Bhaktivedanta hospital, I see more doctors than the sisters. They
are taking nice care of me. They are telling me all kinds of stories about
the hospital there. There was one Bengali lady and she had become completely
atheistic. Her father came to the hospital with cancer of the lungs. So the
spiritual care ladies asked her if she would like to read Bhagavad Gita for
her father. She was not interested, but they encouraged a lot and then she
was inspired. They got a Bhagavad Gita for her in Bengali and she was
reading it for her father. And she got a change of heart. She thought that
the spiritual people were just greedy and were doing for them, but she saw
they are selfless and she got inspired to practice. Eventually her father
left her body. She wanted the Hare Krishna people to perform the final
rights. And she sponsored one of the Monday programs in the hospital. In
this way they are making so many devotees at the hospital. May be I will
become a devotee. They are really touching the heart of many devotees. May
be some of the stories, it is not good to tell because some of the people
may be here as devotees now. They may feel embarrassed.

The mercy of Srila Prabhupada and Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu are unlimited and make almost everything possible, as it has been happening with the recovery of HH Jayapataka Swami Guru Maharaja, although if we consider it for the last weeks, it is almost similar but today when I went to the physiotherapy section to see His Holiness, I found that for the first time GM was able to stand alone with the help of some holding bars under the guidance of the physiotherapist. In fact this gave us a lot of happiness to see his improvement, but my main report this time will concentrate in something amazing that has happened today, as I mentioned, by the unlimited mercy of the Supreme Lord in fulfilling the desires of his pure devotees and representatives of His mission as are the desires of thousands of devotees who gathered in Pune for the Annual Yatra festival, that this year brought 5000 devotees disciples of HH Radhanath Swami from all over India and many from abroad who gather annually to have lectures, kirtans, dramas and Krsna katha in association with their Gurumaharaja and very dear disciple of Srila Prabhupada as is HH Radhanatha Swami, for this occasion the organizers invites some senior Srila Prabhupada disciples to give them association, but the surprise this year which is the biggest yatra ever in Pune, that this time is organized by HG Krsna Candra das Prabhu in his big mansion house. Well the surprise is that the Chief Guest is His Holiness Jayapataka Swami. Although he is in a very limited physical condition, still, fulfilling the desires of thousands of devotees and after his miracle recovery was able and empowered by Krsna to travel for 5 hours by road to participate in this program that started yesterday 23rd and will end on 26th of January 2009. The main desire is to have the association of the devotees. But in fact this is also part of the healing that His Holiness needs as it is his life and soul the preaching of the glories of the Holy Name Hare Krishna.