Prema Padmini devi dasi

1) A year ago, we were just leaving to the airport in a car from a farm program in the interior with Guru Maharaja. Madana Mohan Chaitanya das(MMCD) was just standing outside and saying his farewell to Guru Maharaja. Guru Maharaja asked him, "Why are you not coming to the airport?" He normally was always present to receive or send off Guru Maharaja.

 "Iam wearing my dhoti, Guru Maharaja and have not brought my pants along." Being a muslim country, we had to be in secular dress outside.

 Guru Maharaja said, "Then get yourself a pair of pants from the shop on the way and come to the airport!"

 We started to drive and somehow Guru Maharaja still wanted to give his mercy to MMCD.

He asked Vijaya Venugopala prabhu, "Why are we not going in MMCD's car?"

"Guru Maharaja, everyone's services have been allotted and it is now the turn of Mantresha Gauranga das to drive you in this car."

 Guru Maharaja was not satisfied.

 Suddenly, the hazaed lights of the car acme on and would not go off at all even after the driver tried his best to do so. All of us checked if our doors were shut properly, but no matter what, the lights would not go off.

We could not continue driving witht he hazard lights on without a policeman driving up to us shortly.

 Suddenly, MMCD's car was following ours! Vijaya Venugopala prabhu suggested that we could shift to his car. Guru Maharaja was game. So as we got into the car and started moving, the hazard lights on Mantresha Gauranga das' car went off!

 We realized how Guru Maharaja's every desire fulfilled amazingly!

  2) This happened around 16 years ago. Guru Maharaja had just come to Mathuradesh from the South African Ratha Yatra. Soon after his arrival during the morning walk, he handed his camera to us to take photographs.

 Devotees developed the film quickly and we were amazed to see the photos! There was light coming out of Guru Maharaja's heart and spreading like a flower all around. In another shot, Guru Maharaja is standing by the corniche wall and looking at the fishes in the sea, and the word "HARE KRISHNA" is seen on the waters!

 We were excited and showed the photos to Guru Maharaja. He laughed and joked that this must be something mystic! 

 Then he saw all the photos and saw some South African Ratha yatra photos of fire works. He laughed and remarked that you have taken shots from the same film of the South African Ratha yatra and that explains for all the mystical lights!

 Neverthless, the perfect way in which the lights had appeared on the new photos still seemed mystical conveying to us the spiritual energy and love emanating from Guru Maharaja's heart!

 3) During the same visit at the corniche during the morning walk, Guru Maharaja went close to the wall of the corniche to look at the sea. Suddenly a flight of gulls made a huge racket, turned course and came towards Guru Maharaja! After coming a little closer, they flew away.

 "Guru Maharaja, were they paying obeisances to you?" I asked.

"Not exactly", Guru Maharaja replied!

 4)Guru Maharaja used to wear a magnetic band around his wrist a few years ago for health reasons and on the other hand, he had his watch on. I asked him what the purpose of the band was. He said very nonchalantly, "Oh it keeps spiritual time."

 I asked him if he was both in the material and spiritual world at the same time.  He looked up very seriously and replied, "Yes."

  5) Guru Maharaja was sitting on his chair after a late night program in Mathuradesh and chanting his Gayathri mantra. After around five minutes, his head began to droop and we took it that he was very tired and sleepy.

 I requested a prabhu to gently wake up Guru Maharaja by pressing his lotus feet.

Guru Maharaja did not wake up and so we waited for a few more minutes. His head was looking too uncomfortable and not able to bear the thought of Guru Maharaja getting a neck pain, I requested the prabhu to try waking him up again.

 Guru Maharaja opened his eyes and said, "I was in samadhi".

Oh I wished then that the ground would open up and swallow me for having disturbed Guru Maharaja's samadhi.

 6) One mataji, (for confidential reasons, I am not revealing her name), was very eager to take initiation from Guru Maharaja. She had waited a long time for her husband also to join her, but he was slow in his advancement. So she decided to go ahead. But there was no way in which her husband would agree to it.

 Guru Maharaja mercifully agreed to initiate her within closed doors, as she was a very sincere devotee and was determined to be initiated.

After the initiation, Guru Maharaja spoke to her and gave her some mahaprasadam from his plate as a benediction.

 As the mataji reached home, she was in great fear and apprehension over her husband's reaction to her found missing at home. She had gone to visit Guru Maharaja without his permission and she felt he might have guessed where she had gone!

 To her surprise, he was very calm and also accepted the remnants of Guru Maharaja that she offered him, without of course revealing that it was so.

 The next morning, her husband told her, "I think you should go ahead and take initiation from your Guru!"

She came excitedly to reveal this miracle which had happened and later when we mentioned this to Guru Maharaja, he suggested that she should not take an open initiation and invite her husband also to sit along with her at the yagna!

 7) We were driving to a shopping complex with Guru Maharaja. In the Gulf, the sun is quite severe in the day time and so we normally take him to the airconditioned shopping malls, where there is ample walking space for Guru Maharaja.

As we approached the City Center, the parking lot on the ground floor was full, and different devotees were advising the driver devotee about which floor he could try parking the car. Guru Maharaja wanted no time wasted. He grew impatient, and told the driver Vraja Prana das, "I empower you to find a parking space yourself right over here!"

 As soon as he said that after just a few metres away, just close to the entrance, we found a vacant space for the car! Jai srila Gurudeva!

 8) One mataji was expecting a child and she came to take her blessings from Guru Mahraja.

Guru maharaja instructed her to do the "Sosayanti "samskara before the delivery.

This was the first time we heard him instructing someone to do this specifically.

 As she got her labor pains shortly, she was rushed to the hospital and some how the ceremony of soshayanti was missed. But the brahmana devotee Mukunda Murari dasa was rushed to the hospital and just before the delivery he managed to perform it right at the hospital.

 After the child birth, we came to know that the baby was born with the cord around its neck and it was a highly dangerous situation. It came out safe and alive due to the timely performance of the samskara!

 All the devotees, and especially the mother felt great ecstacy to see the miraculous birth of the baby by Guru Maharaja's mercy.

 9) Kamala Gopi dd was in the early stages of pregnancy and the doctor had advised her complete bed rest and no bending at all as she had clusters of fibroids in her uterus. When Guru Maharaja visited Mathuradesh, she could not resist visiting him, and postponing the appointment she had with her gynaecologist, she came to have Darshan of Guru Maharaja.

 She forgot all of her Doctor's instructions and paid obeisances to Guru Maharaja who blessed her with his Danda. On enquiry of her health, she revealed to Guru Maharaja about her precarious health situation.

 The next day, during her doctor's visit, the X- Ray revealed that all of the fibroids were gone and she was perfectly okay! This was indeed a great miracle and the Doctor was also very surprised to see the report!

 Again during her next pregnancy, her foetus was not growing properly and the doctor advised her complete rest and no movement at all- not even turning on her side! But being a school teacher, she had some commitments and was not able to get any rest at all. The Doctors were worried and told her that it is very unlikely that her child will grow and be alive for the full term.

 Again during Guru Maharaja's visit, she came, rendered services for him by cutting vegetables and so on, and also paid her obeisances to him. Again he blessed her with his danda.

After his visit, as she went to the doctor for a check up and the doctor exclaimed after seeing her scan report, "Your baby has over grown and is perfectly normal!"

Somehow Guru Maharaja was there to bless the first child after ten days of her birth and the second one to give her first anna or food grains!

 10) Kamal Gopi has now relocated to Toronto, Canada and is a very active and dynamic preacher there. One of her Bhakti Vriksha members, Amita, was having a problem to chant. She had been a devotee for 6 years and rendered nice services to the devotees and for the Temple, but somehow found it difficult to chant her 16 rounds.

 Kamala gopi had asked her to take care of her Bhakti Vriksha group in her absence during her visit to India to be with Guru Maharaja during his stroke in Mumbai.

 As she had done a good job, Kamala gopi advised her to start a Bhakti Vriksha group of her own as well. But Amita was reluctant as her chanting was still so bad. Kamala advised her to write to Guru Maharaja for his blessings, even if it was unlikely to get a reply from him as he was undergoing treatment in the hospital.

 Likewise Amita wrote to Guru Maharaja explaining her predicament of having to start a Bhakti Vriksha group, but not being able to chant.

 That same night, Guru Maharaja appeared in her dream, blessed her forehead with his danda, and from the next day onwards, she started chanting sixteen rounds without fail for the last 3 weeks!