Messages from Godbrothers of HH Jayapataka Swami
subuddhi krsna dasa
Posted below are messages from HH Jayapataka Maharaj's godbrothers.(compiled by Suvarna Krsna Lila dd)
HH Radhanath Maharaj (25 October 2008):"4000 devotees are going to pray
in Vrindavan. And in Vrindavan to whichever holy place they go, they
will be praying for Jayapataka Maharaj. And they are going to dedicate
the whole yatra for HH Jayapataka Maharaj."
Maharaj also mentioned that he is with all of us (all the
disciples).Maharaj instructed the Chowpatty temple that the 24hrs
kirtan praying for the recovery of HH Jayapataka Maharaj should
continue.
HH Ramai Swami Maharaj
"I really do not know exactly what plans the Supreme Personality Sri Krsna and Srila Prabhupada have for HH Jayapataka Swami. As far as we are concerned, we hope that he recovers and stays with us and gives us his association. And helps push on the preaching all around the world as he has always done. My heart goes to him and my heart goes to all the disciples of Jayapataka Swami. And we are continually praying. I have asked, as a GBC chairman, that some GBCs stay here in Mumbai just to follow the developments as for as his health is concerned. So some are staying on extra, they have changed their timings and everything like that so that four, five or six GBCs will stay on like that. We are feeling positive by the indications given by the doctors there. Of course everything is in Krsna's hands!! It could improve by His will and be happy."
HH Sivaram Swami Maharaj
"Hare Krsna! Very often in medical history, there is a thing that
doctors say are medically inexplicable, doesn't make sense to medical
science. And that's because in the ultimate issue it is not the medical
science that determines whether someone becomes healthy or unhealthy
because they deal with a very immediate cause and effect but as
devotees we know that beyond the immediate movement of organs the
reaction to some kind of medication, medicine, treatment is the
underlying spiritual energy upon which all matter functions. And that
spiritual energy is directly under spiritual control, which then
subsequently controls the material energy. And our faith in regards to
the conditions of HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaj is that in that way, he
is in Krsna's hands and Krsna is the controller. Whatever apparent
medical indications areican be overridden by the underlying spiritual
potency which directs everything. And spiritual potency to cure and
direct the material energy can be invoked by the devotees' desire.
Therefore devotees pray. We pray for the wellbeing of Vaisnavas, we
pray that Jayapataka Swami Maharaj may be cured. But we always pray in
a certain mood.
Just like Srila Prabhupad taught us to prayi 'My dear Lord Krsna if you
so desire..'. Because we don't want to voice any type of intention that
would appear to be separate from Krsna's desire. So if it is Krsna's
desire, then we request that 'You please cure Jayapataka Maharaj'. And
the quality of our faith that is parallel and in harmony with Krsna's
desire and quantity of our faith is that we know actually Krsna can do
anything. Atheistic people, materialistic people may have a different
vision but as Vaisnavas we know that if Krsna wants 'mukam karoti
vacalam, pangum langhayate girim..', He can make lame people walk
across mountains and make dumb people speak and bring any person of any
type of sickness and He can make them completely healthy, against so
called medical evidence and medical science because Krsna is the
ultimate doctor! Krsna is the ultimate mystic and He is the ultimate
controller!. So we should have faith in that and we should pray in that
way and know that certainly Jayapataka Maharaj is not a victim of
material energy but he is directly under Krsna's hands. He is been in
Krsna's hands all this time and now he is also in Krsna's hands. So we
will pray to Krsna 'so if you want to fulfill the desires of so many
disciples, devotees and well wishers of His Divine Grace'. Hare Krsna."
HG Badrinarayan prabhu
"Jayapataka Maharaj is one of the generals in Lord Caitanya's army and it is very hard for me to accept that he does not have further duties and battles to win for Krsna. At our meeting yesterday, at the GBC meeting, repeatedly we thought 'Jayapataka Maharaj would know the answer'. If Jayapataka Maharaj was here... as far as spirit of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, relationships with Gaudiya Math, how to develop Mayapur, Prabhupada's instructions and vision for the future temple, he is an irreplaceable storehouse of practical experience and transcendental knowledge and an ocean of Prabhupada's instructions. So just like Nrsimha brahmachari, his mind could not go beyond a certain point on the path I cannot picture going on without our Jayapataka Maharaj. Still Krsna has his plan. We don't have that vision so we simply fold our hands and pray that whatever Krsna wants may it become manifest and we understand it. Hare Krsna.
HG Anuttama Prabhu
"I had the honor of visiting Jayapataka Maharaj in his hospital room, the day after he was taken to the hospital in the morning. And his color was very good. Obviously he was unconscious and in the hospital he was getting treatment of many different fluids, tubes and things like that. He was in the corner room of the intensive care with windows on both sides. I noticed that sunlight was coming in and sun is always an auspicious and helpful sign. And I spoke into Maharaja's ear. I understand often times people in this situation, they can still hear and I told him how much the devotees around the world loved him and devotees around the world are praying for him and I told him that I am praying that Krsna restores his full strength and full health so that we can preach together and serve Prabhupada together for many more years. And I told him that we are very grateful for his very sweet nature and his loving compassion mood towards so many devotees all over the world. And I offer my obeisances to all the disciples of HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaj and I pray that Krsna will give them strength in this difficult time and they offer their most sincere prayers to Lord Krsna. Srila Prabhupada, when he had serious health crisis he instructed his disciples to pray 'My dear Lord Krsna, if you so desire, then please let our spiritual master stay for he has not finished his work'. So ultimately situations like this are in the hands of the Lord. But the signs are good. We are keeping our hope and prayers up and we are praying to Krsna understanding that Krsna has, in the recent years, Prabhupada has called back some of his senior most preachers to help him wherever his mission may be at this time. And that been very painful but we are hoping this time our prayers will be heard by the Lord and he may bless us and allow us to have more of Jayapataka Maharaja's association in this world for few more years so we can relish his association in the service of Srila Prabhupada and Lord Krsna. All my prayers and best wishes are to his disciples and well wishers around the world. May we get the strength in each other's association and remember this and our appreciation for Maharaj for his love and service.
Hare Krsna!
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