May 242021
Today is Jayananda Prabhu’s disappearance day. He left his body in New Dvaraka, LosAngeles, in 1977. Some weeks earlier, Srila Prabhupada had written him, “A sadhu may live or die; it doesn’t matter. While living he is engaged in Krishna conscious business, and when dying he goes back home, back to Godhead.”
For Jayananda Prabhu’s disappearance day in 1982, I wrote a haiku:
Prabhupada’s full moon
Beams upon my heart’s lotus—
Guru’s service blooms
My book Many Moons, about nine exalted departed followers of Srila Prabhupada, has a chapter about him.
Hare Krishna.
Yours in service,
Giriraj Swami