MY GURUMAHARAJ JAYAPATAKA SWAMY IS NOT AN ORDINARY PERSON -A GENUINE REPRESENTATIVE OF KRISHNA.
I have recently joined Iskcon Desire Tree. The devotional blogs which appear here are wonderful to go through. They in fact water the plant of Krishna Consciousness in our hearts. I am a disciple of HDG Jayapataka Swami Maharaj. It was in early nineties. I was not a full time devotee. But I was close to Iskcon Chennai. Jayapataka Maharaj gave me initiation in 1988 at Mayapur. I used to see him whenever he visited Chennai , pay obeisance and kept myself in the fringe as he was always surrounded by senior devotees who used to vie with one another to serve him. During one such visits Gurumaharaj spoke a few words to many devotees of the center, addressing each one by his name. As usual I was standing away in a corner and suddenly I felt myself longing to be spoken to by Gurumaharaj. I felt a kind of an yearning for my name to be uttered by Jayapataka Swamy Maharaj. As I mentioned before I was not a full time devotee and I had almost nil association with my Guru maharaj . How could I expect him to know/remember my name? I just dismissed the desire. Hardly ten minutes later devotees/disciples started performing Guru Puja/ aarti to him as he sat on Vyasasan in the small hall upstairs. The beautiful "Sri Guru charana padma... song was going on. Devotees were offering flowers to his lotus feet one by one. I always give way to full time devotees and wait for my turn at fag end. The last of the temple devotees was paying his obeisance to Jayapataka Maharaj . I was to go next when Jayapataka Maharaj's voice rang out. " Hurry anandgopal Prabhu I have a plane to catch" I literally ran towards him , placed the flowers on his lotus feet and paid full obeisance. Only hardly quarter of an hour ago I desired that my Gurumaharaj should call me by my name and speak to me a word. The very thing happened to my surprise and blissful shock. How on earth Jayapataka Maharaj knew /remembered my name Krishna alone knows. Krishna never delays fulfilling devotional desires of His devotees especially fallen ones like me. MORE OVER MY GURUMAHARAJ JAYAPATAKA SWAMY IS NOT AN ORDINARY PERSON -A GENUINE REPRESENTATIVE OF KRISHNA.
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