FW: [srilaprabhupadanectar] Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Big earthquake in LA
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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Big earthquake in LA
Big earthquake in LA
March, 1970
On March 1, the Hare
Krsna Temple's
second recording, "Govinda," is released by Apple Records. Prabhupada
receives a copy of the song from Syamasundara and likes it so much that he
wants to play it for the devotees. The next morning, after greeting the
Deities, Prabhupada sits down on his vyasasana when the record starts. As the
song begins to build, some devotees notice that tears are streaming down
Prabhupada's cheeks. He is so moved by the beauty of Yamuna's singing, that he
becomes stunned with emotion, his body visibly shivering in ecstasy.
He requests the temple leaders to play the song every morning during greeting
of the Deities. In his reply to Syamasundara, Prabhupada writes, "The
record is so nice that I am playing it at least once in a day, and it is giving
me transcendental pleasure with tears in my eyes." (Letter to
Syamasundara, March 8, 1970)
Life in the temple is like Vaikuntha, with Visnujana taking care of all the
brahmacaris' needs. One evening as everybody in Los Angeles sleeps, a major earthquake shakes
the city. The brahmacari ashram is shaken to the rafters, jolting the lights on
in the middle of the night.
Mohanananda: During this big earthquake Visnujana sprang up out of bed, as we
all did. He looked around and said, "Krsna! You just shake this whole
world." And then, of course, everybody became ecstatic. He had immediately
tied it in. Here we were in fear of our lives, but he just thought it was the
most glorious miracle of God that could happen. That really impressed me,
because in the Gita, Krsna says, "He who thinks of Me at the time of
death, comes to Me," and that had always been my principle of yoga. The
whole idea was to remember Krsna at the time of death. Visnujana seemed to be
the closest to Krsna consciousness in terms of it permeating his entire life;
everything was associated with God.
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Rsabhadeva: One day we were waiting for Visnujana. We had just taken lunch
prasadam and were in the van waiting for him to come down from Prabhupada's
quarters. He was having a personal darshan.
He came down and said, "Wow, Prabhupada just blew my mind. I asked him,
'You have written that a devotee should chant 24 hours a day. How is that
possible? What do you mean by that? Are we supposed to stay awake? Does the
pure devotee stay awake and chant? Do we chant and preach at the same time? What do you mean by chanting 24 hours a day?'
Then Prabhupada told me that either you chant kirtan, you chant japa, or you
chant with your tongue -- forming the name with your tongue -- or in your mind.
But always the maha-mantra."
You could see the whole time he was speaking, he was absorbed in what
Prabhupada had just said. Rather than being eager to tell it to others, he was
fixing himself up in this instruction. It was still echoing in his mind and he
was reflecting. It really affected him heavily.
- From the "Radha-Damodara Vilasa" by HG Vaiyasaki dasa
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