He Begged Door to Door When His Godbrother Became Ill

It was after 35 years after his [Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaj] Guru Maharaj [Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur] gave the instruction to preach abroad that he was able to do so. He was a householder and he had a business, but it was not too successful.

Once he got tuberculosis. At that time, [contracting] tuberculosis meant the family will reject you. The medicine was too expensive, each day 120 rupees at that time in 1950s,  [today] that [is equivelent] to 12,000 rupees daily. Due to the fact that it was an infectious and contagious disease, his family rejected him. This is not in our written history, only spoken.

That time Srila Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaja said, for the service of my godbrother, I will beg door to door, and he brought him to his temple. At that time, Madhav Maharaj had a temple in a rented house in Rasbihari, Kolkata. It is not the building where the temple is now, but five blocks from there.

Madhava Maharaj kept him there for 6 months and every day gave 120 rupees for his medicine. He looked after him and he got cured. [Swami Maharaj] thought for my family members I spent my whole life, and my god brother looked after me in this very serious situation. Eventually, he felt to become renounced, took sanyass, and he went to the west to distribute Mahaprabhu’s love without any discrimination."

—Srila Bhakti Bibudha Bodhayan Goswami Maharaj, present Acharya of Sri Gopinath Gaudiya Math
excerpted from Harikatha spoken in Holland on 25-Sept-2016
reference link: https://youtu.be/zNaPQ2dqn_s (approximately 48:01 to 50:52)

(text in brackets was added from the exact transcription to facilitate clarity in reading).



Comments

  1. Jay Radheshyam,
    Maharaj, I don't think it was a day's worth of medicines. I heard from some Guruvarga that medicines was only ₹120 in a month. maybe there is some mistake in hearing.

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  2. Jay Radheshyam,
    Maharaj, I don't think it was a day's worth of medicines. I heard from some Guruvarga that medicines was only ₹120 in a month. maybe there is some mistake in hearing.

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  3. Jaya Pujapad BD Madhava Maharaja!
    🙏🙏🙏😍🌸🤗🌼⚘🌹

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