***NARADA MUNI Visits Srila Prabhupada Regularly***
One night an extraordinary thing happened.
Prabhupada led the first kirtan and then
gave a lecture.
I sat on the floor just to his right with the
harmonium, and after the lecture, I began
leading the second Hare Krishna kirtan.
All of a sudden, Srila Prabhupada’s voice cut
through the auditorium with the potency of
Lord Nrisimha, right in the middle of my
chanting.
I had never heard Prabhupada do that, nor
had I heard the words he chanted.
‘Narada Muni bhajaya vina radhika ramana
namne,’ he sang. And then again he
repeated it.
I looked up, and he looked down at me,
signaling me to carry on.
So I continued chanting Hare Krishna, and
he continued singing his prayer to Narada
Muni into his microphone.
I closed my eyes and carried on, not
knowing what was happening. Then he
started leading with me.
We could all understand that something
inexplicable but amazing was happening.
Everyone was literally jumping off the
ground, leaping in the air; even little baby
Saraswati was two feet off the ground, and
the audience was leaping into the air.
We jumped off the stage and all of us began
running around the perimeter of the
auditorium with the audience.
It was one of those Krishna magic moments.
Just amazing! The next morning I asked
what had happened the previous night.
“Didn’t you see?” Srila Prabhupada said.
“Narada Muni came to our kirtan.”
“No, I didn’t see him,” I answered.
“Yes, Narada Muni came.”
( Yamuna devi dasi – London 1969 )
During an ecstatic kirtan in Los Angeles
temple Srila Prabhupada was laughing.
Afterwards a devotee asked why he had
been laughing and Prabhupada said, “I was
laughing to see Narada Muni.”
The devotee said, “Narada Muni?”
“Yes, Narada Muni was there.”
What was Narada Muni doing?”
Prabhupada said, “He was laughing.”
The devotee said, “Why was he laughing?”
“He was laughing when he saw the
mlecchas and chandalas dancing and
chanting Hare Krishna.”
(Dinadayadri devi dasi )
In London, at Bury Place, Prabhupada told
devotees to put a small asana on the altar
for Narada Muni because he was attending
the kirtanas.
In America Prabhupada held a sparsely
attended program but said that sage Narada
was present.
Another time when the reporters came, this
is recorded I’m pretty sure.
In the Berkeley temple in Prabhupada’s
room where he was staying, some reporters
came and some important folks and they
were asking questions.
That was the period of time where the
interviewer asked Prabhupada, “What will
happen when you leave?
When you leave, what will happen to this
movement?”
And that’s at the time where Prabhupada
said that “My books will never die, they will
live on for ten thousand years.”
But also during that darshan, it was
exquisite because there was this practical
interchange of how interviews go and all of
a sudden Prabhupada looked up over
everyone’s head into the corner, the exact
corner of the room, and he said, “There’s
Narada Muni.”
So Prabhupada saw Narada Muni during
that time in that room.
(Dhanishta devi dasi )
FLASH BACK
Narada Muni also foretold extraordinary
worldwide preaching. In the Padma Purana,
Bhagavata Mahatmyam (2.5-7), he says:
“O Bhakti Devi, there is no age like Kali
because you will be established in every
house and in every heart. Hear my vow.
If I do not preach your message, subdue all
other religions and make devotional festivals
predominant, then I shall not be considered
the servant of Lord Hari.
In Kali-yuga those people who follow you,
even if they are sinful, will attain Lord
Krishna’s abode without fear.
Unlike anyone else Srila Prabhupada fulfilled
Narada Muni’s prediction by following Lord
Caitanya’s instruction:
prthivite ache yata nagaradi grama,
sarvatra pracara haibe more nama:
In every town and village of the world. My
name will be heard.
{Caitanya-bhaga vata, Antya 4.126)
Bhaktivinoda Thakura Thakura wrote in his
magazine Sajjana-tosani, “Soon there will
be a time when the chanting of Krishna’s
name will be heard in England, France,
Russia, Germany, and America.”
From the above passages we see how Srila
Prabhupada’s glories and activities were
foretold.
Srila Prabhupada made a perfect
appearance, led a perfect life, and had a
perfect departure.
Srila Prabhupada lives forever in his books
and worships Lord Caitanya by teaching
everyone to always chant “Hare Krishna Hare
Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare
Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.”
PS: I humbly request all the devotees to
please forward and share this pastime to
non-envious persons so that they can be
benefited by hearing about Krishna and his
dear devotees.
Srila Prabhupad ki Jai!!!!
Guru Maharaj ki jai!!!
(Written By Sarvajaya Madhava Das)
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