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Disappearance of HDG Vana Maharaja

 

By Richard Shaw Brown

 

These are the facts about the disappearance of HDG Srila Bhakti Hridaya

(Bon) Vana Maharaja as reported in the book " Supreme Divinity and

Sad-guru " by Dr. Tapodhir Krishna Dastidar.

 

9.04 pm, July 7, 1982

 

Location: Bhajan Kutir, Vrindavan, UP, India

 

Vana Maharaja had been in bad health since 1979 when he collapsed

during a South India tour and nearly died. After that he was treated in

different places and stayed for some time in Calcutta at the residence

of Sri Pranatosh Basu, but sometime in 82 he returned to Vrindavan to

oversee (amongst other things) a grant given to IOP by the government

of Assam and to introduce the new research scholar that was to arrive.

However his health was still bad and only got worse. Gopananda Vana

Maharaja told me that for the last month or so he would only take

charanamrta.

 

Tapodhir Krishna describes his glorious passing thus:

 

" Our hearts, laden with anguish and anxiety, we spent all day taking

part by rotation in the kirtan which somehow continued even after the

expiry of the midday of July 7. In the evening when a few of us were

singing sadly kirtan before the ashram Deities, we were hastily

summoned from the Natmandir by Swami Rasikananda Maharaj and requested

to gather round Gurudev's bedside.

 

While ceaselessly chanting the " Hare Krishna " Mahamantra over and over

again, we watched helplessly as Gurudev's chest slowly heaved up and

down with every intake and exhalation of breath. All the while, even in

his semi-comatose condition, his tongue was rhythmically chanting the

Holy Name of Krishna. Swami Keshavananda Maharaj was feeling Gurudev's

pulse all the time. The end, as already stated, came at 9.04 pm on July

7, 1982. The last giant amongst the best exponents of Gaudiya

Vaishnavism, His Holiness Swami Bhakti Hriday Bon Maharaj left his

mortal coils to join the company of the Supreme Godhead's Eternal

Associates who are ever engaged in offering esoteric and supra-mundane

devotional service to Sri Krishna and His Counter-whole projection Sri

Radha in their transcendental love-sports. We shall never see the like

of him again. " (SDASG, 83-84)

 

I was also told afterwards, that when he was taken out for a parikrama

of Vrindavan, his eyes opened when the palanquin left the Bhajan Kutir,

and they closed when it returned. Also, Lalit Krishna Brahmacari in

Madras told me that some lady disciples of HDG Bhakti Vilas Tirtha that

were present said that they felt a distinct smell of sandalwood coming

from his transcendental body...

 

Ref. http://www.richardshawbrown.com/mysticarticles/Tridandi1.html

 

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