Memories and stories, comments from other devotees-
If you have any stories or comments about Jayananda, please send them for this page.
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...The nectar pastimes and rememberances of Jayananda Prabhu. Thank you for putting such transcendental subjects on the cyber waves. It's what they are meant to be used for. What more can I say? Your writings brought tears to my eyes, and believe me, that's not easy.
Your hard-hearted servant,
Dhruva Maharaja Dasa
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Dear Prabhu,
I think this page was really a wonderful nectarian experience. It is rare to find such a perfect devotee save Srila Prabhupada. It is facts like these that the media should be concentrating on to show that this is a bonafide Krishna conciousness movement rather than dwelling on a few devotees who had strayed from the path. Most publicity I see and hear from the media is usually of the negative kind.
Again, Thank you for inserting a positive ray of sunshine. I feel, that I have really come to know Sri Jayananda Thakur, and if I can follow even an atomic portion of his life, I will consider myself extremely fortunate. Haribol, Bharat
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The Jayananda section...... WOW! MORE MORE MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll endeavor to link to that from my UK Rathayatra site (in preparation) Ys Arjunanatha dasa
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And I'm really looking forward to reading the latest Jayananda essays. I found the one you wrote, about his visiting you in 'trance' or dream state very interesting and moving. How wonderful if devotees who leave may return and inspire us, who knows what wonders await devotees, once this movement gets back on track -SS
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This makes it really worth while-
I do not want to be presumptious, but I do want you to know that the stories you present concerning Srila Jayananda Thakura has had the effect of introducing him to me, and has given me the understanding that by following in his footsteps of his Christlike humility and desire to be pleasing to Srila Prabhupada, the return to mahaksadasa in this form was not a waste of effort. Today, I do not care if I live or die, an NDE may produce different results, but, somehow or other, I feel that my fixed up fellow disciples, such as the wonderful Jayananda, will again act as my preceptors and speak to Srila Prabhupada on my behalf, not even considering my shortcomings, just as he did that day he stopped working on the cart and going through great effort to make sure that I received a plate of maha-prasadam. Mahaksa dasa
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All Glories To Srla Prabupad! PAMHO! Hare Krishna! I am not worthy to even reply. Please forgive me for existing. Keep me informed of your efforts. It is possible that even the lowest of life forms may evolve exponentially thru the contact of a devotee. May all the blessed pastimes of Srla Jayananda be known eternaly. Personally, I was the pick up man after the great devotees like Jayananda passed away. Many close Godbrothers and sisters in the Berkeley and San Francisco areas still have much necter to share. Try contacting Jagganatha Swami Das in Berkeley for some real Jayananda Nectar. Another source is Harepriya Devi Dasi in Grass Valley @ (916) 432-2173. Hare Krishna, Gopal das
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I especially appreciate your inclination to NOTICE that Srila Prabhupada has bonafide disciples, thus authenticating his position as Jagat Guru. In the kanistha rush to find new gurus, many forget to approach his disciples to find his life still intact, as well as the lives of all the acaryas and Vaisnavas still intact. His disciples are often hidden by their Vaisnava Qualities and their adherance to the principles given in Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's Siksastakam. Not chair grabbers, they are content to always remain at his feet, birth after birth. To sing the names, pastimes, and glories of such disciples of Sri Vaisnava Acarya is pure nectarian transcendental activity, and is thoroughly recommended process to instill and maintain MEMORY of the Samkirtana Movement. All glories to Sriman Jayananda Prabhu, whose very life is always spent in the service to Vaisnava Thakura. Where would any of us be without the instructions of Sri Siksagurudeva? Haribol, friend, keep the sweetness of your page going, ys Mahaksadasa
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I think often of Jayananda, his pleasing of Srila Prabhupada. In such meditation, I also think of Srila Haridas Thakur, who requested from Sri Chaitanya to be allowed to leave because he could not bear the separation if the Lord of his life preceeded him. Similarly, I firmly believe that Sriman Jayananda could not bear to exist in the absence of Srila Prabhupada, and that his passing was the Divine Grace, and that they are planning maha-festivals as I write this memo.
ys, mahaksadasa
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As you say everyone loved Jayananda. I only met him once. We were on our way to India and were stuck at one of the airports in NY and had to go to the other one. All of a sudden a beat up old truck pulled up in front of all of us (about 10devotees). The driver asked where we were going to which we replied the other airport. he said hop in I'll take you there. We got there just in time to get our flight. As he left us off, I asked someone "who was that man?" The devotee said, "That was Jayananda"!!!! He also had perfect timing because he was so surrendered. ys Damaghosa das
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I just visited your site and savored the experience of your most recent song of praise for Jayananda Prabhu--it is so inspiring to hear a devotee uplift another devotee with such a devotional spirit! Thank you for the ambrosia. Hare Krishna, Celta
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Email from Mahaksa dasa-
....then we think we are better than everyone else, that we have the right to treat others like they should follow us, without any tolerance, filled with false prestiege. The gopis are invisible to those above the straw in the street, so why converse publicly on their sweet relationship with the Lord.
This is a tribute not to yourself, but to your siksa guru, Sri Jayananda, who I do actually remember. I was a herbed out surfer puke who dropped by the L.A. temple in 1971, and he was there, dirty, intensely laboring without anyone helping him, working on a large wooden cart. He stopped long enough to take time to say haribol to me and talk to me as if I mattered. He truely took Sri Siksastakam as his life and soul.
My reply- This was really a great email realization of yours, of the glories of the siska guru, the personification of trinad api, Srila Jayanada Thakura, and I thank you much for the intense realization you came to and shared, really great, that is, give up the lofty rasa esoterica and perfect Mahaprabhu's basic 8, that is all. As if we can perfect them!! No, we can only grovel in the mud toward the shoreline of Mahaprabhu's ocean of nutshell instructions! Without cheap imitation, let us beg for the mercy to be the straw in the street, which is not done by any proud effort on our own.
And thank you so VERY much to remind me that "is a tribute not to yourself, but to your siksa guru" that is really what I REALLY need to hear, otherwise I could always become "proud of my humble writings," and they are only the life of Jayananda, nothing done by me. As the funny saying goes: "I take great pride in my humility." HA, isn't it true! Actually there is a great verse by Srila Prabhodananda in his Sri Vrindavana-mahimamarta (a great book) where he talks about phony sadhus parading their humility around in the Dhama, looking furtively around for a little recognition.
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