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Personal Help for Kusakratha
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The two devotees caring for Kusakratha Prabhu in his last days are both ill and need your help. Would anyone available to give a small helping hand running errands, or in any small manner, please come forward.
There are many devotees visiting Vrndavan for Kartik as well as many who live there.
September 12, 2005–
Kusakratha prabhu called the "Goloka Airlines" hospice staff here at terminal 108, MVT (Mayapur-Vrndavana Trust Guesthouse) in Vrindavan last month. He has finally collapsed and is finally accepting seva from the devotees here. He is bedridden and only skin and bones.
Because he took no chemotherapy he is actually doing pretty well—mentally sharp as a tack and still doing some poetry.
All Glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga!
September 8, 2005, Krishna Era 5233
Dear Kusakratha Prabhu,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I am very sorry to hear that you are facing more complications with regard to your physical body. You are using this devastating illness to show the world how to be a surrendered soul of Sri Sri Krsna-Balarama.
It was wonderful to see you last March in Vrndavana, blissfully performing your daily duties, visiting Krsna-Balarama Mandira, taking kichari prasadam in association with the devotees, etc.
My dear devotees,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
By now you must have heard the shocking news of a terrible accident involving a young devotee, the daughter of Srimati Mahadevi, a faithful disciple of Srila Prabhupada. Mahadevi, Goura Prema, and her older sister, Caitanya, all went to India where Goura, a very accomplished dancer, was going to study classical Indian dance. On the streets of New Delhi, in the heroic act of saving her sister's life from an onrushing car, she was herself run over and her legs were severely injured.
[The original report of the accident comes at the end of this article. I regret that I could not post it previously because of being offline.—Umapati Swami]
Dear Devotees,
Hare Krsna! Here's an update on the condition of the devotees from the New Orleans temple who were involved in Monday's tragic accident:
Divya Gopal and Mathura Krsna Prabhus are out of the hospital and flew back to New Orleans yesterday. Topi Krsna and Uttama Prabhus will be released and will be flying home today.
Please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Tamohara Prabhu, who runs the International Child Protection Office, recently had his camper stolen (while he and his wife were sleeping in it). Their story is included. They lost all their most important personal possessions including their computers, all their data, and all their software.
Clearly, this loss has made their service of protecting Krishna's children far more difficult.
Dear Devotees,
I want to take this opportunity on behalf of Srila Prabhupada to thank all of you who personally rendered some assistance to me this past year in my efforts to overcome a bout with a very serious illness.
His Holiness Radhanath Swami and the wonderful devotees in our Chowpatty Temple serving Sri Sri Radha-Gopinatha kindly gave me full facility to mend while there in the wonderful devotional environment created by all of them. In addition, many devotees sent donations, large and small, to help me offset the costs involved in treating my condition.
Hare Krishna. Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
I am a 19-year-old East Asian girl, and I would like to correspond with other devotee girls.
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Rita McNaughton, also known as Momji, is a devotee of Krsna and a faithful follower of Srila Prabhupada. She also happens to be my mother. At present, she is very ill, and therefore I've decided to write a few words in honor of a great soul.
Momji was born in 1922 in rural Manitoba, Canada, on a homesteader farm. She came from a large family of eight brothers and sisters. They had no electricity, running water, or telephone.
Dear devotees of Jagat Guru A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada,
This is Udayananda dasa here.
It has been almost a year since I wrote my appeal to all of you to help in raising funds to pay for the medical treatment for my dear friend Praghosa dasa. I am truly sorry and apologize to everyone for being unable to give regular updates on Praghosa Prabhu's progress over the nine months that he stayed at Sri Sri Radha Gopinatha Mandir in Chowpatty.
In addition to fundraising, responding to almost every letter that was sent, buying herbs, vitamins, and medicines and sending them to Praghosa and wiring the funds to India, I went through a personal crisis that completely changed my life. With only my wife Rasesvari devi dasi to help me in this regard, there just has not been any time to regularly address the world community of devotees.
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
My name is Mantrini Devi Dasi and I have a letter in my possession addressed to Madira Devi Dasi from Srila Prabhupada, personally signed by him. It is dated August 26th, 1971, and she was in the Buffalo temple at the time.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada, Please accept my humble obeisances. Hare Krsna.
We are planning to travel to India for Mayapur Festival 2005. I will be traveling alone with my three children. I have been advised of the dangers of this (Kali Yuga) and told to look for other devotees to join me. We are planning to arrive in Delhi and go to Kuruksetra, then come down through the banks of the sacred Ganges to Vrindavan, Govardhana Hill, Radha Kunda, Syama Kunda, and on until we get to Mayapur on the 8th of March. We plan to do this in ten days or two weeks maximum.
Dear Prabhus and Maharajas,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
There are many devotees who experience this kind of depression. This is due to all kinds of reasons, including false ceilings we tend to set up for ourselves. Recently we had an experience with a very dedicated devotee who had an accident, didn't chant his rounds for a couple days while hospitalized and in dire straits, and mentally flagellated himself for the better part of the year progressively into a catatonic depression.
Hare Krishna Prabhu's and Mataji's,
We need some help from devotees who might be coming from London to Mumbai (India).
We have ordered some books and CDs from Indradyumna Swami's tape ministry, Walthamstow, London. If anyone is coming to Mumbai, India, I would like to request him or her to bring the small parcel so that we can save some laksmi on the postage. The saved laksmi will be used in the service of Sri Radha Kund, Govardhan, Vrindavan.
Please email me at HarishM81@yahoo.com
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Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I have cancer in the liver, and bones, and I have been operated on recently for breast cancer. For the last two months, I have been taking Ayurvedic medicines, but I will need more. If there are any devotees who are coming to the United States from India and could bring some medicine, please contact me.
Dear Maharajas, Prabhus, and Matajis
Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
My father, who is quite old and weak, has been doing badly with his health for quite a long time. Finally he was diagnosed with a large, 10-year-old stone in his gallbladder. Because the stone is so large, the only option left is to remove the whole gallbladder. The operation will be done soon.
Please Pray
for
Jahnavi Devi Dasi
From Anuttama dasa
Posted June 30, 2004
Dear Devotees and Friends,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
This letter is to request your prayers for a dear Vaishnavi, gurukuli, and special friend of Krishna youth.
Jahnavi dasi, Jennifer Haggard, a gurukuli and former Director of Children of Krishna (CKI), is in critical condition in the hospital in Gainesville, Florida. Jahnavi, 32, a lifelong diabetic, went into the hospital on Friday, June 25. On Sunday, her doctors operated and removed two large tumors from her abdomen.
Looking
for Yajna-
Patni Devi Dasi
Hare Krishna. Please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Upon visiting your website, I discovered the "personals" department, in which people may look for friends they've lost touch with over the years.
I am looking for a red-haired British lady named Yajna-patni, initiated by Satsvarupa Maharaja, who was living in the Boston temple in the late 1980s. Anyone knowing her whereabouts please contact me at lalitamadhava@juno.com or 386.454.8278.
Thank you.
Your servant,
Lalita Madhava d.d.
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Looking for Draupadi Devi Dasi
Haribol!
I am looking for a devotee named Draupadi devi dasi. She lives in the North Carolina area and is an amazing artist. We met in Dallas in the early '80s and lost touch, but reconnected at TKG's memorial service. I lost her phone number, and the email I have for her is no longer valid. She is like a big sister to me and I miss her very much. If anyone knows her please tell her that her little sister Krishna is desperately trying to get in touch with her.
I can be reached at krishnaharrison@yahoo.com.
Thank you.
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Help Save the Life of
Praghosa
Prabhu... Please
Dear devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
The following appeal is one of the most difficult and painful things I have had to do in my entire life. Our dear Godbrother and friend Praghosa dasa has contracted a life-threatening case of cancer. The doctors in the Chowpatty Temple have discovered a tumor 18 inches long and 10 inches wide in his abdominal area. The attached letters from Radhanatha Swami and from one of the doctors will give a further explanation of his condition.
U.S.A.
Looking
for Devotees in Georgia
From Bhakta Jason
Pearson
Posted
January 12, 2004
Hare Krsna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
I am a devotee from Chicago who might be moving to Athens, Georgia, this spring to finish school. I was wondering if there are some devotees in that area who are doing regular programs. Atlanta is a little over an hour away and I might only be able to get there on the weekends and for festivals.
In Vrindavan Mahimamrita it says, "One who helps one who resides in Vrindavan makes millions of times more advancement than one who lives there, as he helps himself and the other person."
I have been living in Vrindavan for eight years by the mercy of my Gurudeva, Srila Virabahu Maharaj. For five years it was my good fortune to do gurukula seva, and now I manage the womens ministry at Krsna Balaram Mandir. I also had the good fortune to reside in New Dwarka, Los Angeles, for ten years, serving Rukmini Dwarkadisha as assistant pujari and ashram leader.
U.S.A.
Hare Krishna. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
One of my friends is visiting Kokomo, Indiana, USA, for a period of three months. Please let me know if there are some devotees or ISKCON centers in the vicinity.
Thanks for your time.
Hare Krishna.
Laksmi Nrsinghadeva das
Laksmi.Nrsingadeva.JPS@pamho.net
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October 15 –
Dear devotees, please accept my dandavat
pranams. All glories to our Divine
Guardians and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
I have just learned that Srila Prabhupad's only disciple in Norway, Sripad Vedanga Prabhu, will undergo a heart bypass operation this Wednesday in a hospital just outside our capital, Oslo.
Dear Vaisnavas,
Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I am looking for Madhusudana Dasa, disciple of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada. Anyone with information on his whereabouts or how to contact him please contact me at: Shyamasundara.acbsp@pamho.net
Your humble servant,
Shyamasundara Dasa
http://www.ShyamasundaraDasa.com
"krsnas tu bhagavan svayam"
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Hare Krishna and thank you to the different devotees who have written with suggestions and prayers or concerns in regard to a plea for help with a terminally sick devotee friend, Suci Rani from here in Perth, Australia, whom I have been trying to take to Brazil.
Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances.
I am writing with a lot of concern for a devotee friend whom I live with here in Perth. She has rapidly advancing cancer, and I have been advised by Bhanu Swami and by my husband and others to find out how to take her to see Joao de Deus in Brazil, whom Sridhar Swami went to see.
Kusakratha:
His
Books and His Health
I last saw Kusakratha prabhu at the end of July in Vrindavana (I have been back in Australia since August 4). He was thinner and the swelling on the lymph glands of his neck was visibly larger than when I saw him in February, at the time when he was diagnosed with throat cancer. His voice has continued to change somewhat also.
Dear Devotees,
I would like to inform all of you about my recovery from that accident. As you may already know, I returned from the hospital and I'm now in the Krishna Balaram Mandir. A metal plate was put in my thighbone. My shoulder is only dislocated and not fractured.
Bhubaneshwar prabhu had a successful three-hour operation on his right hip on Sunday 27 August in the morning. Dr. Ravi Kant, an orthopedic surgeon who has performed over 1,000 successful operations, inserted a metal plate in his hip to join the broken bones. Bhubaneshwar was listening to tapes of Srila Prabhupada singing throughout the operation (local anesthetic was used) and even induced the doctor to chant Hare Krishna as he was performing the operation.
Dear Devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Sriman Bhubaneshwar prabhu, the beloved long-time head cook at Krsna Balarama Mandir in Vrindavana, slipped and fell two days ago and broke his right hip and shoulder. It happened at 4.28 AM as he was coming out of the temple.
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