In Chapter 1 of Prabhupada Vijaya, '\u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da\u2019s Pra\u1e47\u0101ma-Mantra' narrates a little-known piece of history long forgotten in the present day. The recollection of its compilation will give insight into the intimacy and appreciation of Prabhup\u0101da by his dear friends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>
On February 10th, 1977, \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da paid his last visit to \u015ar\u012b Caitanya S\u0101rasvata Ma\u1e6dha, particularly to visit \u015ar\u012bla \u015ar\u012bdhara Mah\u0101r\u0101ja.* <\/strong>On that visit, two astounding things occurred \u2013 the first was that \u015ar\u012bla Prabhu\u00adp\u0101da announced his departure from the world to \u015ar\u012bla \u015ar\u012bdhara Mah\u0101r\u0101ja. He also requested him to look after his disciples after his disappearance. This is a recorded conversation that has been printed and distributed worldwide for the information of the general devotees. \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da informed him, \u201cMah\u0101r\u0101ja, I will not remain much longer in this world. I want to bring you to M\u0101y\u0101pura so that you can preach to my disciples. I will bring people from all over the world \u2013 they will come and hear from you and you will preach to them.\u201d Of course, nobody at the time could really understand that Prabhup\u0101da was announcing his departure from the world, but in fact he told this to \u015ar\u012bla \u015ar\u012bdhara Mah\u0101r\u0101ja.<\/p>\nAlso on that day, \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da requested \u015ar\u012bp\u0101da Bhakti Sundara Govinda Mah\u0101r\u0101ja to compose a Sanskrit pra<\/em>\u1e47\u0101<\/em>ma-mantra <\/em>which would then be recited daily by all of \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da\u2019s disciples, because Govinda Mah\u0101r\u0101ja was a very expert devotional scholar of Sanskrit. At that time Govinda Mah\u0101r\u0101ja was a householder, but he was a lifetime servitor of \u015ar\u012bla \u015ar\u012bdhara Mah\u0101r\u0101ja, and from his youth he was very intimate with our \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da.<\/p>\n*This Bengali conversation was transcribed by H.H .Bhakti C\u0101ru Swami.<\/span><\/p>\nIn 1947 when he was a young boy, he ran away from home and came to the \u0101\u015brama<\/em> of \u015ar\u012bla \u015ar\u012bdhara Mah\u0101r\u0101ja at sixteen, and was initiated and given the name Gaurendu Brahmac\u0101r\u012b. His family didn\u2019t live so far from Navadv\u012bpa so they eventually came there looking for their son. \u015ar\u012bla \u015ar\u012bdhara Mah\u0101r\u0101ja knew that Gaur\u00adendu\u2019s family would eventually come there, so he decided to hide him. Where did he hide him? He hid him in \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da\u2019s house in Kolkata. And so, for about 5 years he stayed mostly in \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da\u2019s house and became the favourite son of \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da. \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da\u2019s own children were captured by their mother \u2013 she never really took much serious interest in K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness. But young Gaurendu was very enthusiastic for San\u00adskrit studies, studying Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101<\/em>, kitchen service and all these things. In the beginning of his devotional service, \u015ar\u012bla Prabhu\u00adp\u0101da had a hand in training him for preaching. In 1944, when \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da started his Back To Godhead<\/em> magazine, Govinda Mah\u0101r\u0101ja would go out and distribute it. He would meet so many people with opposing views, then he would come home and report to \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da, \u201cI found this opposition \u2013 they say this, they say that\u201d then Prabhup\u0101da would give him the answers. But he would say that sometimes Prabhup\u0101da\u2019s answers were \u201ctoo heavy\u201d and he was afraid that if he repeated them, the people might chase him and beat him with sticks. Therefore, while he lived with \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da, a very affectionate relationship naturally developed between them that endured throughout.<\/p>\nIn about 1983 or 1984, remembering the request of \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da before he departed this world, Govinda Mah\u0101r\u0101ja wrote a pra\u1e47\u0101ma-mantra<\/em> in Sanskrit. Actually, if you look very closely at this composition, you will see that all the things that are near and dear to the followers of \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da are included there. He has included all the glories of \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da that are very important to us, much to our satisfaction \u2013 and in particular our fervour to always refer to our Guru Mah\u0101r\u0101ja as \u015ar\u012bla Prabhu\u00adp\u0101da. He restructured the original pra\u1e47\u0101ma-mantra<\/em> that we are used to, so it read, sv\u0101m\u012b \u015br\u012b bhaktived\u0101nta prabhup\u0101d\u0101ya te nama\u1e25. <\/em><\/p>\nnama\u1e25 o\u1e41 vi\u1e63\u1e47u-p\u0101d\u0101ya k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-pre\u1e63\u1e6dh\u0101ya bh\u016btale<\/em>
\nsv\u0101m\u012b \u015br\u012b bhaktived\u0101nta prabhup\u0101d\u0101ya te nama\u1e25<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cI offer my humble obeisances unto His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktived\u0101nta Swami Prabhup\u0101da, who is very dear to K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a on this earth, having taken shelter of his lotus feet.\u201d<\/p>\n
gurv\u0101j\u00f1\u0101\u1e41 \u015b\u012brasi-dh\u0101ryam \u015bakty\u0101ve\u015ba sva-r\u016bpi\u1e47e<\/em>
\nhare-k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47eti mantre\u1e47a p\u0101c\u0101tya-pr\u0101cya-t\u0101ri\u1e47e<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cTaking the order of his guru on his head, he became empow\u00adered to act as a \u015aakty\u0101ve\u015ba-avat\u0101ra<\/em>. He distributed the Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a mantra<\/em> all over the Western world, delivering and uplifting all fallen souls.\u201d<\/p>\nvi\u015bv\u0101c\u0101rya pra-vary\u0101ya divya k\u0101ru\u1e47ya m\u016brtaye<\/em>
\n\u015br\u012b bh\u0101gavata-m\u0101dhurya-g\u012bt\u0101-j\u00f1\u0101na-prad\u0101yine<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cHe is the best of millions of jagat-gurus<\/em>, because he is the personification of divine mercy. He has distributed the sweet nectar of \u015ar\u012bmad Bh\u0101gavatam<\/em> and the transcendental knowledge of Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101<\/em> all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\ngaura \u015br\u012b-r\u016bpa-siddh\u0101nta-sarasvat\u012b ni\u1e63evi\u1e47e<\/em>
\nr\u0101dh\u0101-k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-pad\u0101mbhoja-bh\u1e5b\u1e45g\u0101ya gurave nama\u1e25<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cHe is constantly engaged in exclusive devotional ser\u00advice to \u015ar\u012bla Bhaktisiddh\u0101nta Sarasvat\u012b \u1e6ch\u0101kura, \u015ar\u012bla R\u016bpa Gosv\u0101m\u012b and \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu. I offer my humble obeisances unto \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da, who is just like a bumblebee always tasting the nectar of the lotus feet of \u015ar\u012b \u015ar\u012b R\u0101dh\u0101-K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a’s.\u201d<\/p>\n
(From a lecture given on \u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da\u2019s appearance day, at Myrtle Beach, USA, on August 29th, 1994)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Chapter 1 of Prabhupada Vijaya, ‘\u015ar\u012bla Prabhup\u0101da\u2019s Pra\u1e47\u0101ma-Mantra’ narrates a little-known piece of history long forgotten in the present day. The recollection of its compilation will give insight into the intimacy and appreciation of Prabhup\u0101da by his dear friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[206,208],"krishna_talk_article":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5592"},{"taxonomy":"krishna_talk_article","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rupanugabhajanashram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/krishna_talk_article?post=5592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}