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Disappearance of HDG Vana Maharaja

 

By Richard Shaw Brown

 

These are the facts about the disappearance of HDG Srila Vana Maharaja as

reported in the book " Supreme Divinity and Sad-guru " by Dr. Tapodhir Krishna

Dastidar.

 

9.04 pm, July 7, 1982 (Age 81)

 

Location: Bhajan kutir, Vrindavan

 

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...

 

Thank you for reading this. Hare Krsna!!

 

Richard Shaw Brown, PG

Musician, Designer, Gemologist & Author

www.richardshawbrown.com

 

 

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