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Thank you so much for your help and inspiration from your web page. I wept deeply and spontaneously today reading about Jayananda giving his hopital bed to Srila Prabhuapda. Jayananda has been giving me so much inspiration lately and his association thru the memories of other devotees is changing my dirty heart.   Thank you Prabhu your servant, Krsna Prema d.d.

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hari bol, this is nipuna dasi. my mother is in hawaii for a the time being.she doesn't really know how to access her email from there...i know it's easy, but that doesn't help her...so here is all i know.jayananda used to babysit me. in addition to all his service like washing pots and taking out the trash and getting all the local businesses to donate free bhoga like big metal dairy farm containers of milk and lots of sour cream and fresh fruit, and organizing ratha yatra, he would babysit me while my mother went out on sankirtan. my mother tells me that it's because of jayananda prabhu that i was such a giant baby with huge cheeks. he is the one that made it possible for the temple to be so abundant in milk and yogurt and sour cream and all sorts of fresh fruit. i ate mangoes and sour cream and bananas and sour cream and canteloupe and sour cream. hehe. well back to jayananda... this is how he would watch me. he would put me in those big rectangle shaped flower boxes that we got the loose carnations in and give me candy and i would be content to just watch him work my father was the pujari on the cart at the first big san francisco ratha yatra. his name is devaprastha. i'm not sure where he is but i'm sure he worked with jayananda prabhu as well.  and i'll get my mother bhavatarini to send in stories as well hari bol, nipuna

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It is wonderfull you have created this site on Jayananada stories when he was amongst us. Jayananda prabhu has always been, for me, an example of perfect servant of Srila Prabhupada. I often refered to him, here in France, to other devotees, explaining how Jayananda was such exalted devotee, so faithfull & dear to Srila Prabhupada. But, as you say, hardly anybody knows about him around the world, despite he is our first Saint. In fact in France I am the only one who had the privilege to meet him, even only few of us in Europe had this rare opportunity. I always remember when you, my brother Jiva Krsna, & I went to visit him in his room in LA. At that time he was becoming very weak, but he saw you, he jump out of his seat & offer his obeissances to all of us: I'll always get that image in my heart.. such an humble devotee. In fact anything I have done in connection with Jayananda prabhu always brings me happiness: building with Vatsala dasa & you, in SF, the Chart Jayananda had conceived, even chanting my round in his red truck in Berkeley, after Jayananda disappearance, was for like a tirtha place. I sometime pray to him to guide us, here, in organizing year after year the Ratha Yatra This is so wonderfull to glorify Lords Jagannath, Baladeva & Subhadra in the streest of Paris. Actually I am part of the bureau, here, which organize that festival: each year with my godbrothers Advaita Candra p., Aristanasana p. & Nitai Gaura Sundrara p. we keep putting on, with the help of Paris temple & the indian congregation, the Ratha Yatra festival. When I help to participate to organize that festival: it always puts me in connection with Jayananda prabhu: that's why I choise to do this service, it remenbers me of my first years in KC. Thank you very, prabhu; please keep pourring on us stories of Jayananda prabhu, the world of devotees need it, specialy now... every devotee needs to see how Srila Prabhupada & Krishna made such sincere devotee. We have a little journal in which we try to glorify, twice a year, the importance of the Ratha Yatra: having stories of Jayananda prabhu will really enliven the devotees. Hari Bol. Jayananda Prabhu ki ji!!! Your servant, Maharsi dasa.

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Haribol, Visokadasa, So many are bereft of good association with those who have lived only for the glory of the servants of Sri Govinda. I, myself, am missing, too, yet, when you remind me, always, of Sriman Jayananda Thakur, I am reeled back in, knowing fully well of Srila Prabhupada's influence on his "bonafide" disciples. Jayananda dasa was content, and HAPPY, as humble servant. He never had desires to be anything else. He hated the fact that his days were numbered, not because he feared death of the body, just that his service would be temporarily disrupted, that he would not get to the 1977 Rathayatra, knowing that this was his sweet service to his Guru Maharaja. Sriman Jayananda Thakur, who did not spend much time in erudite discussions or mental speculation, taught nevertheless, by his example. Simple servitude to the desires of his Guru Maharaja, one-tracked purpose, was his example, and this speaks volumes of philosophy that will bring us back home, to him, his Guru, his Gauranga. Haribol, Mahaksa dasa

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