On the Disappearance Day of Srila Prabhupad

In the initial part of harikatha, Srila Gurudev narrates about how Srila Param Gurudev acquired the appearance place of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur at Puri-dham. Then he narrates how Lord Jagannath stayed three days in front of Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur’s house at Puri when Srila Saraswati Thakur was of six months. He also narrated about how Srila Saraswati Thakur approached Srila Gaurkishor Das Babaji repeatedly for his shelter.

Labdhva Sudurlabham Idam…

At 1, Ultadanga Road Srila Bhakti Siddhant Saraswati Goswami Thakur used to deliver sermons on Srimad Bhagavatam which is the quintessence of all Scriptures. Many people used to come to listen him. There, he spoke on this particular verse from 11th Canto for one full month. Even after commenting on this verse for one month, he was not satisfied and wanted to speak more about it! Listening to his powerful teachings regarding the rarest opportunity of the human birth and its actual purpose, two students of Scottish Church College, Kolkata, who were going back home after attending their college, could never go back home. They stayed in the Math for rest of their life. Such was the powerful preaching activities done by Srila Prabhupad. We cannot even imagine what he did.

Srila Prabhupad’s Final Instructions

May all of you work unitedly and in harmony toward the same goal: to earn the right to serve the root āśraya-vigraha. May the current of ideas propagated by Sri Rupa Gosvāmī flow throughout the world. May we never under any circumstances become indifferent to the seven-tongued sacrificial flame of the Holy Name. If our attraction to it remains ever-increasing, we will achieve all perfection. Remain one pointedly faithful to Sri Rupa Gosvāmī’s followers and preach Rupa-Raghunath’s message enthusiastically and fearlessly.

Announcement of Prabhupad’s Departure in Gaudiya Magazine

At about 5:30 A.M., on Thursday, January 1, 1937, on Krishna caturthī, Srila Prabhupada entered the eternal abode, joining Sri Radha-Govinda in the predawn pastimes (niśānta-līlā). At the end of every night, Sri Radha-Krishna lie intertwined in an embrace, becoming as one body. It is at this moment, when Their united form of Sri Gaurasundara is eternally manifest, that Varshabhanavi-dayita Dasa, Their servant, joined them. This is the announcement of his departure as published in Gaudiya Magazine.

Contemplating Separation from Srila Prabhupad

Although when the sun has set, it may be outside the vision of the living beings in any given country, it cannot be concluded that the sun has become extinct. Similarly, when the associates of Bhagavan perform their disappearance pastimes, they may remain in a domain beyond our range of vision, yet they are eternally His companions, nourishing Bhagavan Sri Gauranga’s and Bhagavan Sri Krishna’s pastimes.

Q&A from Srila Prabhupad's Upadeshamrit

Srila Bhakti Mayukha Bhagavat Goswami Maharaj, the disciple of Srila Bhakti Siddhant Saraswati Goswami Thakura Prabhupad, has noted the question-and-answer conversations of devotees with Srila Prabhupad in his diary which later got published as ‘Prabhupad Upadeshamrit’. This particular article has English translation of eight questions and answers from Upadeshamrit.

Srila Prabhupad Padma-stavakah

This stavakah is written by Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhardev Goswami Maharaj in glorification of Srila Prabhupad. In this he pays obeisances to his Gurudev who is the embodiment of Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu’s gospel, the deliverer of the fallen and the destroyer of the darkness of unorthodox doctrines which oppose the conclusions given by Sri Rupa Goswami and his followers.