The Moment
Part 1 -THE MOMENT Sri Sri Guru Gaurangau Jayatah!! The moment we found out about Srila Gurudeva’s physical departure, well I can’t say it was a ‘moment’, because I kept thinking that they got it wrong and Srila Gurudeva will open his eyes again. Srila Bhaktivaibhava Puri Gosvami Maharaj, I have heard, enacted this pastime. He performed his sickness-lila and it was understood that he had entered samadhi. Srila Bhaktikamal Govinda Maharaj recounts how at some point during the sickness-lila of Srila Bhaktivaibhava Puri Gosvami Maharaj, our Srila Gurudeva Bhaktivedanta Narayan Gosvami Maharaj came to visit him and told him to stop this sickness pastime because he still has many services to perform. It was shortly after this that Srila Bhaktivaibhava Puri Gosvami Maharaj got better again and not only started preaching again in India but also started travelling all over the world and opened many temples. Similarly, I could not believe Srila Gurudeva had entered samadhi, or if he...