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Health Update Of HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaj 

April 5th 2024 

Hare Krishna,
Dear disciples and well-wishers of
HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

All glories to Guru Maharaja

Guru Maharaja continues to be in ICU and seemed to be doing well yesterday, but soon after midnight, his oxygen saturation dropped significantly and an immediate x-ray showed a lot of fluid collection around his lungs. So, it was decided to remove 1 litre of the fluid and observe. Late in the afternoon another litre was removed and since then the oxygen saturation, breathing and blood pressure are stable so far aided by different medications.

Based on the situation doctors have decided to start intermittent dialysis instead of continuous dialysis. They also upgraded the antibiotics and antifungal injections to combat life-threatening infection. Guru Maharaja was very drowsy this morning but after resting he woke up to take his lunch in the afternoon and went back to sleep again due to extreme fatigue.

The medical team are doing their best and the prayers of the devotees who did Govardhan parikrama for the health of Guru Maharaja really has made a difference. We therefore humbly request devotees to pray intensely to Gauranga Mahaprabhu and Srila Prabhupada for the good health of Guru Maharaja.

Thank you all for your support and cooperation

On behalf of the
JPS Health Team and
Seva Committee,

Mahavaraha Das

PADA: Oh dear, not looking good. All of these self-proclaimed original disciple "living guides" are dying off left, right and center. There won't be any of them left real soon. And this begs the question, where did they guide ISKCON off to? As one devotee said, ISKCON fell out of Vaikuntha and landed in hell. 

Yet! We should pray for him to survive, because he is our best poster child for us to show why it is a bad idea to take a lot of karma without authority. Meanwhile I know some former gurukula children who tell me, "every day we wake up, we pray that all of them will be removed from the planet. They are most sinful men and are a burden for mother earth. Wherever they are, many people -- especially children, are suffering and being exploited." 

Low oxygen levels, lots of fluid build up, these are signs of people getting ready to depart. Of course he has had these signs for quite awhile. Anyway it looks like there are prayers for wanting him to stay, and prayers hoping he will not stay. I have no particular horse in the race, if he stays, he suffers, when he leaves here -- he goes to straight Yamraja's place and he will simply continue to suffer there. 

I once posted that the Bhagavatam says a person who assaults a Vaishnava has to go to the stone rollers in Yamaraja's planet, and be crushed repeatedly, and that applies to Jayapataka -- because his regime had all sorts of devotees banned, beaten up, molested, sued and worse. And he wrote to me to complain. Yeah, he knows what is coming. And that is why he is so desperate to stay here, the worst is yet to come. ys pd

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MAYESVARA UPDATE 

PADA: Not ignorant at all. Srila Prabhupada told us over and over, none of you can even let people touch your feet or you will be taking karma, and you will get sick, fall down, or both. A number of them departed already. The etiquette is, we have to follow the orders of the acharya. If he orders us to avoid taking karma, that is the rule for all of us, no exceptions. 

I told Jayapataka in 1979, we cannot take karma, and he laughed at the instructions of the acharya. He thinks he can cheat the orders of the Supreme, but he cannot and will not. Even Jayapataka followers sometime admit, he has taken too much karma, it is self evident. And Srila Prabhupada told us, if we do not have brahmana tejyas of an uttama acharya, false gurus will be taking a boat load of that karma with them into the next life. 

As for reputation, yeah, Mayapur has a reputation for being a haven for predators, as many ex-children told me repeatedly. And LA temple even has photos of Lokanath on the altar on a regular basis, they just love the predator messiah's program. Yeah let us treat people nice, JPS spends $20,000,000 suing Bangalore starting in 1997, then in 2001 they are asking for money for kids shoes in Mayapur. ys pd

I told Jayapataka and Jayatirtha in 1979 that Srila Prabhupada said many times -- none of us are qualified to absorb karma, and if we do artificially, we will get sick, fall down, or both. They laughed at me. Sorry, we neophytes cannot take karma, and if we do -- Srila Prabhupada told us many times "you will have to suffer." And they are. 

Of course a number of them left their bodies prematurely -- as well as getting sick and falling down. Yes, a neophyte has to be very careful not to absorb karma from others, he will suffer, and we see that happening in spades all over ISKCON, they thought they could violate these instructions and they suffered as a result. A neophyte is like a fragile bean sprout, and he has no potency to hold a big load, he will be overwhelmed. We have to focus on countering our own karma load before we take on others. ys pd

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NOTHING IS ALSO SOMETHING

There is no such thing as nothing, because "nothing" still contains something [Krishna's all pervasive energy]:

https://bigthink.com/hard-science/nothing-exist-quantum-foam/?

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BOOK CHANGES VIDEO

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GBC MISTREATED DEVOTEES

MAHANANDA DASA: (found this old piece I had written over 10 years back) I never really liked writing about my personal life but sometimes I just become driven to share something. Please indulge me. It is in 4 parts. This is part 1. Tomorrow is part 2, and so on.

LEAVING NEW VRINDABAN and leaving Hladiniji dd (forever, it turned out).

Mother Archana Nair made this comment on my post about Hladini tonight..." I wish Mother Hladini had left New Vrindavan with you. A wife should always follow her husband... a devotee husband."

My answer to her started me remembering some of the heart ache of leaving her behind. I don't blame Kirtanananda, but he did have a reputation of separating men from their wives. I am... thinking of writing the whole story soon.

"Yes, Archana Nair. There is so much story to tell about those days and our situation, about what Kirtanananda had his boys do to me, how it's taken me 35 years to recover complete devastation, how Krsna remained with me all that time as I wondered for years slowly recovering the heart break after being taken out in the middle of the night and dumped in an alley way in Wheeling by the people who were part of something I had completely dedicated my life and soul to. This part I don't talk about to anyone. I am aware that it was Krsna's kindness to me to bring me to Him. 

I was sitting all day in the stairs of a downtown parking lot in NYC , having gone a whole month surviving a winter on the streets of NYC and not taking my rubber boots off my feet only s few times for an entire month. But each day still trying to be Krsna conscious. Sleeping on an all night ride on the subway and surviving on the bread that that one bakery would compassionately hand out the door to whom ever would tap gently on the glass somewhere around the beginning of Brahma muerta hour. 

Then being sucker punched by a 300 pound parking lot attendant in the middle of the night who was afraid I was going to rob him when I walked up and maybe just said hare Krsna. Having my jaw broken in three places and taken to Belview to get my teeth wired shut. Living on the winter streets was hard, but the broken jaw made me almost regret always following the glorious footsteps of Queen Kunti and always praying "Krsna please make my life like hers. Then I will be forced to take complete shelter of you more and more!"

Thank you for your kind words. After I picked myself up from that alley way ground the night Kirtanananda's boys threw me away out the back of that van, I walked out on the street and sat down on... the steps of the YWCA and buried my head into the sleeping bag rolled up in my lap. A lady waiting for a bus walked up and spoke kind words to me and handed me a five dollar bill. 

I wasn't saying anything , but I was a clean cut young man in his early 20's, and it was obvious I was completely lost and devastated. After her bus came in a few minutes, I started to wonder down this strange street probably wondering what now? I went into a diner and sat down at the counter to rest. I didn't say one word, but soon the waitress could feel my pain and brought me a grilled cheese sandwich and some soup. A customer sitting nearby walked over and also handed me money. I was completely at a loss and couldn't even talk to anyone, but before long people had given me $21 that night before morning. I never asked for even one nickel..

I was so accustomed to practicing devotional service throughout the day for some few years, that I though I could best serve Krsna by using the money to distribute prasadam . I saw this wholesale fruit market and I bought a whole shopping cart of oranges for the entire $21. I was pretty happy I remember. I took them to some private place and very humbly asked Krsna and Srila Prabhupada to please accept them.

Back then when we did something like offer prasadam we did it with such humility and sincerity, praying with all our hearts to please accept our teeny offering. Then I went off to try and distribute them, and still do something to keep the mood of helping the suffering living entities like Srila Prabhupada had so recently done for us.

Soon I saw a Catholic mission who distributed food to the poor. I pushed my cart into the door and was so joyful that I could stealthily get them to distribute this prasadam to many people in the days to come. I guess I simple walked out the door and just wondered down the street of this small West Virginia neighborhood. I have to say that for at least a few days I starved, having given away all the money that perhaps Krsna had given me for my simple maintenance. I really don't know. But I was really hungry for a while.

I went to this town square I guess near their downtown, and across the street was this big bridge where the Turnpike was crossing the Ohio River right at that point. I found a nice flat area at the top of the embankment right under the road and I made a little place to sleep there with some cardboard I guess I found, and maybe some old cloths. Oh, and I must have still had my sleeping bag.

I was still bewildered how after completely giving my life and soul to Krsna, Iskcon, and Prabhupada, here I was flat on my face almost complete defeated. Now years later I understand how Krsna has shown me His special blessing and has carried me to this point in my life where I have so learned that he is my only shelter.

During the day I would go down into the square where there were many people and I would try and meet people and share with them about Krsna consciousness and devotional service. I remember sometimes people would take care of me bringing me food from their homes. I don't remember anything about having any more money and I never once mentioned money to those I tried to help.

Sometime once or twice a week a sankirtan party would come to this town from New Vrindaban and I would hear them in the distance and find them and walk along near them to hear the holy name. Actually, what's the big deal. I was still able to do my devotional service-- that is never checked by any material circumstance. What I don't remember is my state of mind but I must have been a basket case because even 35 years later I am still recovering. (....to be cont'd)

AGRICULTURE SUFFERING FROM WARS

People starving in many places all over the world, and farmers cannot work when these wars are going on.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati has said Israeli air strikes have turned southern Lebanon into a "devastated agricultural area".

Israel and the Iranian-backed Lebanese armed group Hezbollah have been trading fire across Israel's northern border since war erupted in Gaza, with Hezbollah firing rockets and Israel launching air strikes and artillery shells.

The Israeli strikes have burned tens of thousands of olive trees and torched farmland across southern Lebanon, hurting herders and farmers already suffering from a deep economic crisis that has made it even more important for Lebanon to produce its own food.


"Eight hundred hectares have been completely damaged, 340,000 heads of livestock have died, and about 75% of farmers have lost their final source of income," Lebanon's National News Agency quoted Mikati as saying.

"This problem will extend to the coming years."

Agriculture Minister Abbas Hajj Hassan sounded the alarm last month, saying the Israeli strikes were preventing farmers in villages and towns near the border reaching their fields, affecting up to 30% of Lebanon's agricultural output.

(Reporting by Adam Makary and Clauda Tanios; Editing by Kevin Liffey)