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Vyāsa-pūjā 2020

Jaya Rādhā Kṛṣṇa dāsa (Mayapur - India)

All glories to śrī guru and gaurāṅga

My dear spiritual father, please accept my respectful obeisances at the dust of your divine lotus feet. All glories to the most auspicious tithi of your appearance. All glories to śrīla prabhupada.

Gurumahārāja, when you came to Mayapur from Chennai on 20th February 2019, devotees celebrated the event by naming the festival as:

KRISHNA GAVE YOU BACK TO US!

Mayapur Home Coming with Jayapataka_Swami

You addressed the devotees by briefing about your liver and kidney transplantation. You said as to how you have been waiting in Chennai for four months for the transplantation, but nothing happened. Surely, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya who is very dear to you had his own plan and wanted to arrange everything for you. You visited the government hospital and it was supposed to be a visit to check the possibility of getting the organs, but Kṛṣṇa arranged everything that it happened very quickly on the very next day, 15th August 2018. Even the newspaper carried an article about how you got the organs so quickly which usually takes so long, everyone waiting in the line.

You came to Mayapur on 20th February and the next two days you worked on the upcoming “Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya” book wherein comes the account of Lord revealing as to how He saved his devotees in their past event. Somehow, these two pastimes seem like an announcement from the Lord because these narrations of the pastimes were not pre-planned but coincided with your arrival and your speaking about the pastimes.

Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura’s being saved by the Lord was narrated on the next day on 21st. This is narrated from Caitanya Candrodaya Nāṭaka as follows:

Lord Caitanya:  Çréväsa, do you remember how with My hand I once forcibly stopped your life breath from leaving your body?

Çréväsa: (remembers) Yes, I know, O Lord of Lords. I remember that I was forcefully saved from death by someone. While listening to the story of Prahlāda Mahārāja, the moment arrived. I became unconscious and, under the spell of death, I fell from a balcony to the courtyard below. Then someone rescued me from the mouth of death.

Lord Caitanya:  It was I that appeared to you in a dream. It was I that gave back your life when it was ended.

Then the very next day on 22nd, the narration from Caitanya Bhāgavata of how Gaṅgādāsa Paṇḍita was saved personally by the Lord Himseld was declared by the Lord which is as follows:

While narrating the previous activities of Gaìgädäsa Paëòita that were unknown to all, the Lord said, “When you felt great danger because of not finding a boat on the bank of the Ganges to escape the harassment of the Yavana king, at that time I assumed the form of a boatman and took you in a boat across the Ganges. No one except you knows about this. But I know.”

So, why should the narration of these two pastimes should be done on the two consecutive days of your arrival to Mayapur? Surely, these must be an announcement from the Lord as to how the Lord saved His devotees in the past, saves His devotees in the present and will continue to save His devotees in the future. You mentioned a phrase about undergoing this experience as, ‘’coming out from the jaw of death”, and so the Lord has hinted of His involvement with the narration of the incidents about Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura and Gaṅgādāsa Paṇḍita. Therefore, it was aptly celebrated your arrival to Mayapur as: 

KRISHNA GAVE YOU BACK TO US!

Mayapur Home Coming with Jayapataka_Swami

You are so much detailed in every aspect of dealing with devotees and everyone else whoever comes in touch with you. You even are thinking of novel means to spread Krishna Consciousness to every one. For instance, you inspried devortees to send quotes from Bhāgavatam and other scriptures with the brand name Go-Run-Go and Kee-Tie. People without any knowledge of Gaurāṅga and Nitāi are made to chant Go-Run-Go and Kee-Tie, but are playfully chanting Gaurāṅga and Nitāi. This is just only one example of numerous ways you are giving the people unknown sukṛti. 

On the day of Navadvīpa Maṇḍala Parikaramā Mahāmilan 2020, you spoke recounting the realization of one of the devotees that did Parikramā

It was very nice to hear the realizations yesterday! One person said that they were suffering so they wore shoes. And some elderly man who came up to him, I don’t know if it was Krsna in disguise, and said, I need shoes, someone took my shoes, so I gave my shoes, what could I do? Then he said, that somehow the holy name seemed to be coming from his mouth, automatically! 

Thus, you are teaching the importance of Vaiṣṇava-sevā even while one does Parikramā. Then you further told devotees to write down their realizations and made the assembled thousands of devotees to chant Gaurāṅga and Nityānanda.

I hope all of you have written your realizations in the form provided. So just to satisfy the prediction of Śrla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, we should chant three times, Jaya Śacīnandana! Jaya Śacīnandana!Jaya Śacīnandana!  Gaurāṅga ! Gaurāṅga ! Gaurāṅga ! Nityānanda! NityānandaNityānanda! Dhanyavād! Nanḍri!

Thus you concluded your inspiring speech. Not just lecturing to the crowd, but even to your intimate servants, you remind them about Gaurāṅga and Nityānanda. At present, when the whole world is talking about Corono Virus, you sang Parama Karuṇa song and added the line Parama-Karuṇa-Virus of Gaurāṅga and Nityānanda.

Since you are the person Bhāgavata, glorifying you would be as good as the book Bhāgavata and there is no limit to such glorification because one can never finish glorifying, but still for the Vyāsa-pūjā book, this is my tiny offering to you.

Your spiritual son, Jayarādhākṛṣṇa dāsa