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Nepal Preaching Tour May 2009
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I'm very sorry that I could not
send daily report, I was thinking to do that, but as
soon as Maharaja
arrived there was no time for rest...in our new
preaching place - an old Nrsimha temple in Birgunj,
Nepal ... Gurumaharaja came to Nepal to celebrate
Nrsimha Caturdasi (8 May).
After his arrival we went to Dharan, east of Nepal.
Dharan is in the Sunsari District, situated on
foothills of Himalayas with southern tip touching
the edge of the Terai at an altitude of 1148 ft
(349m). There we did a big concert ... Maharaja was
singing Hare Krishna with a band on a public stage
where we set our programs for 5 hours and it was
very wonderful.
However, Maharaja suffered severely from a cold,
chest pain, little fever, and sometimes he had a
runny stomach and he became physically very weak, so
I was not able to leave him and
go out for email...It is amazing to me that even in
such situation he was taking part
in our concert and singing songs there...dancing
even though he was practically very ill for more
than three days. Plus he was always present in
Mangal arati on time ... a few minutes before
he was vomiting and getting diarrhea and the next
minute again he was on time for Mangal arati. There
is no record in the history of ISKCON Nepal that he
was not present at Mangal arati! |
View of Dharan, Nepal |
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I have attached some photos of
our programs…You can see Gurumaharaja doing abhiseka
to a large Nrsimha Saligram Sila in one of the
ancient temples in Nepal, pictures of our
preparations for a Nrsimhadeva drama with some local
boys, and Gurumaharaja relating very inspiring
stories about Nrsimhadeva, which I had to translate.
He told one story about a little girl who was badly
hit by a truck but miraculously survived as she was
protected by Nrsimhadeva. |
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This story was also
found in the newspapers, and several witnesses of
this truck-accident after this incident became
devotees of Lord Nrsimhadev. This happened to a
simple Vaishnava family that lives in South Africa.
They had a back then 5 years old daughter. This girl
was a great `fan' of Nrsimhadev." She found Him
simply funny, as he looked half lion half man and
felt very attracted to Him. She often told her
playmates about her favorite God, a lion and the
kids always wondered about what of God this could be
a lion.
So, one day the girl was playing outside with her
ball together with other kids, beside the street.
The ball, how else could it be, fell on the street,
and the girl ran after her precious ball. There was
nearly no traffic, a rarely used country road. But
this time a very fast truck came running down the
road. The girl in her play didn't see the truck
coming.
The father was in the first floor of the house and
saw his baby girl running on the street and he also
saw the huge truck coming down, closer to his
daughter with huge speed. The father yelled at her,
but she didn't hear him. So he jumped out of the
window of this first floor to save his daughter, and
broke both his legs, when coming down, and remained
laying on the ground in pain.
He had to watch how his little girl was hit by the
truck and thrown through the air, some 20meter away.
All children and neighbors around who observed this
froze the blood. The father later said his only
desire when he saw this was to die. From the other
direction came a police car that also witnessed the
accident. The truck went on and the policeman
stopped his car across the street to stop him. The
truck-driver hardly stopped his truck and he seemed
to be very drunk. The policeman immediately called
the ambulance and ran over to the motionless laying
girl in the grass. |
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closest hospital was a small private clinic and the
ambulance came, but refused to take the girl, being
afraid they wouldn't have the necessary devices and
machines to help the injuries the girl must have.
They advised the policeman to call the main
hospital, as only they could efficiently help her,
as her spine must be broken, etc. The policeman was
in despair, not even knowing where the father of the
girl was. Actually he didn't even know if the girl
was still alive, as he didn't dare to touch her, not
knowing how injured she was.
However, in the end she was brought to a right
hospital, the policeman accompanied the girl, and
also finally the father there. The chief-doctor
heard then what has happened to the girl, and they
immediately x-rayed her to see first results. The
policeman wanted to rest assured how the girl was
doing, and waited there to see the results.
Everybody was shocked to hear what terrific accident
had happened to the girl. So the nurse brought the
x-ray pictures to the doctor, who became very upset
and started yelling at the nurse she should
for-God's-sake bring the right pictures, things were
about death and life. He threatened to fire her, as
it was unacceptable to make such mistakes. The nurse
was scared and didn't understand what was happening.
Those were the pictures of the five year old girl
that was hit by the truck. The nurse wasn't aware
yet of what had happened to the girl. The doc said
this cannot be on the x-ray there was not a single
broken bone. So, the doc all the time again and
again repeated impossible it can't be'.
Then suddenly the girl awoke from her faint and then
told a story at full consciousness which made its
tour through the media. The moment she picked up the
ball from the street, she saw the truck coming up to
her. And the only thing she could do was to yell out
for help. She didn't call for mommy or daddy, but
for her Nrsimhadeva. In this moment when the truck
should hit her, she suddenly saw how Nrsimhadeva
picked her up from the ground, smiled at her, and
said, `don't be afraid, nothing will happen to you'.
The girl continued her story that the Lord had put
her on the other side of the street into the grass.
But when putting her down, He accidentally scratched
her waist, which still hurt her a bit.
She spoke about how beautiful Nrsmhadeva was, His
hair, His eyes, etc. But his claws were very sharp,
He should cut them. He wore a golden dhoti. The
doctor didn't understand anything and told the
policeman she still was in shock and hallucinated,
which is normal. |
So, the girl was profoundly checked for any
injuries, but the only injury they found on her body
were those scratches and the doctor said this must
be from a wild animal like a lion, as he had cases
like this before. So, he was disturbed and asked if
they had brought the girl to hospital as this one
was injured by a wild animal, not a truck. Nobody
was clear what had happened. The same doctor and the
nurse who took care of her later became devotees, as
they later learned from the parent who `that lion'
was.
Jaya Nrsimhadeva!
We traveled and visited several temples in Nepal,
and were sad when Maharaja left Nepal to his next
destination - Patna.
Reported by Keshava dasa, Nepal |
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