Prayer Request for Raghunath das

 

Raghunath das:

You think its rough trying to leave the mob. Well, try dying around Hare Krsna devotees some time. This is like the 4th time you bring me back from the dead. Dear ones of 20 and even 30 years ago suddenly appearing through these dark and terrible clouds of death. 

Angels. All of you. Nope. Not organ failure. Just Covid. Covid just sounds so much better that way. It's all about context. Spent the day at the hospital. They checked all my organs: liver, kidneys, pancreas, better then usual - I have not eaten in 8 days since the fevers 1st started. 

My triglycerides count runs 2 to 3 thousand vs the normal 2 to 3 hundred. Organ failure follows. Thought it had finally caught up with me after a decade. Nope. Just Govid. 

Oh yeah, and pneumonia. Doctor's here finally killed this raging fever of 8 days, whew, such relief for the last couple hours, some cough syrup has reduced the violent coughing spells along with other regimens. Amusing just how such sweet, short simple out pouring from around the world charge the heart with such a sense of blessing. 

Also noted that all these improvements are only AFTER and always follow the devotees prayers. Never before. I am the product of your prayers literally - again. Your prayers are my super power. Thank you my friends. 

John Raghu Giuffre

[PADA: Yes, we should all send our best wishes and prayers for your recovery. Raghunath was one of the people who helped gurukula victims -- when unfortunately not many of the adults stepped forward to do much of anything. He has -- at the same time -- been in some very difficult, if not life threatening situations. 

And we believe these difficulties are mainly because -- he has no real shelter in ISKCON, so he has been struggling on the outside -- which is very difficult if not dangerous for a devotee -- to go back and be associated with the material world. And many other ex-ISKCON children "kulis" are also struggling, while some of the elite gurus are living in expensive real estate homes in Carpenteria, Venice Beach, San Luis Obisbo etc. 

Anyway, Raghunath was helpful when we were putting together the list of molesting victims in the Windle Turley case, so he did more than many others to help victims at that time.

We still have devotees trying to tell PADA that this virus problem is "a hoax and a myth," it is no worse than the flu, and ivermectin will cure it etc. India's Health Ministry just announced that people should not bother taking ivermectin, because many of the people taking it got sick and died anyway, and it could cause more harm than good. It would seem to us that India's health ministry would be advising people to take something -- if it actually is a cure.

And how did you guess, some of the devotees telling me it is a hoax, got very sick themselves. Sorry, a hoax does not make people get sick and die. We did advise one very sickly devotee to go to the emergency room and get the Regeneron treatment, and they reported a big improvement afterwards. So yes, I would advise people to go to the hospital if they are really sickly and not sit around and take Zinc, vitamin C etc. thinking they can cure themselves. Maybe they can, but maybe not.

In sum! Let us hope Raghunath can recover from all this with Krishna's help. ys pd]