20260301 - Jaladuta Diary

Namaste. So I thought we'll read the diary of.

So I thought that we'll reach diary of Srila Prabhupada's journey on his on his way to America.

But although I right on under that apparently no file has been sent over yet.

Although I've recommended that apparently no file has been sent over yet.

So what should we do tonight?

So what should we do tonight? Good marriage.

And then have questions.

So he has recommended speak 10 to 15 minutes and then have question and answers. Is that a good idea?

Krishna conscious movement is something meant towards all those Lord Chajanna's desires.

So this Krishna consciousness movement is only meant to establish Lord Chaitanya's desires.

And the Rama Vivaja ran all the holy rivers solars I came to see Lord.

So in the in the Brahma Vaivarata Puran it's mentioned that all the holy rivers and service they came and met

Lord Krishna and they had put Ganga Devi as a spokesperson.

And they have put Ganga Devi as the spokesperson.

So.

So she said when you leave Kaliuga

would begin and Allah bathe in our

waters and all the people will bathe in our waters in Kali Yuga they

will be sinful water dry.

Since what's the message? We'll be overloaded by we'll be overloaded by their sins.

So please take us with you.

So please take us with you.

And

then larger smile and then Krishna smiled.

Because that thousand or five thousand years.

So Krishna smiled and said wait for five thousand years and

send a little bathing your waters and get all the sins.

So sinful people bathe in your waters and you'll get all the sins.

And after 5,000 years will be a golden age.

After 5,000 years there would be a golden age where people are generally ka conscious.

And that'll last for 10,000 years.

And that would last for 10,000 years.

Hello. that time you'll know the Lord is because when they bathe in their waters they'll chant Hare Goshang.

And there at that time all the devotees when they will bathe in your waters they will chant Hari Krishna.

You'll know them.

You'll know them.

So like this, now 5,000 years is up.

So like this, now 5,000 Years is up.

So we have to work to bring in the golden age.

So we have to work to bring in the golden age.

We have to spread the Hare Krishna movement.

So we have to spread the Hare Krishna movement.

So Raghavan said that the Hare Krishna movement is the movement that can save the world.

Srila Prabhupada said the Hare Krishna movement is. The movement can save the world and

many places in his books imagine that his books will be the law of books.

In many places he has mentioned that that his books would be the law book for the next 10,000 years. What does that mean?

Why does Prabhupada say that?

Why is Prabhupada saying that?

You know that is that he is empowered devotees for sending the spiritual leadership.

Because he is the empowered devotee for presenting that spirit. The spiritual literatures.

What else does that mean?

You know what does that mean?

What else does it mean?

What else does that mean?

Nine months. 10,000 years.

So 10,000 years. It's not an accident. It's haven't mentioned that.

You don't repeat what I say.

I didn't get.

You say don't get it. Don't struggle it. Right?

Yes.

You want to struggle it. I don't want to stop this right now. This time for the Saja golden age.

So now is the special time for that golden age to be established and

to take the empowerment from Lord Chaitanya.

You have to take the empowerment from Lord Chaitanya.

Now. Recently yesterday Iran and Israel started bomb Iran.

So recently yesterday America and Israel started to bomb Iran.

And I just heard today that. I heard yesterday how Iran started bomb all the other places that West Asia.

So yesterday I heard that Iran started to bomb all the other places in West Asia.

On today I heard the head surgical leader of The Iran was Dr. The Ayatollah.

So today I heard that the spiritual head of Iran Ayatollah.

He died.

He died.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Who knows.

So this could expand into a world war. Who knows.

And so.

So they have to see how they can work out. How it could work out.

I think all our devotees have to be prepared.

So I think all our devotees they have to be prepared.

So.

To expand the KA Consciousness movement all

the people to chant the Hare Krishna

Mah should get all the people to chant the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra.

And to work for Krishna.

And to work for Krishna.

Even the different religions of the world work for God and work for Allah.

Even the different religions of the world they should work for God. They should work for Allah.

Not today you can't hear the diary. The process.

So we got the preface of the Jaladuta diary. Okay, I will have Gopati Krishna Das to read it. Preface. April 1965 while approaching the Scindia Steam Navigation Company in Bombay to sponsor his passage to America. R.L.A. prabhupada received one of their complimentary diaries. He used it at first as an appointment book. Once his voyage to America on Jaladuta began in August of that year, he made regular entries in the diary to record the events of the journey. Subsequently, the diary was kept in the safe of the New York temple until 1972 when RLA Prabhupada requested Bali Mardhandas, the temple president, to take personal care of it. Today it is still in the care of Bali Mardhandas and he is arranging for its permanent display and preservation. Excerpts from the diary where diary were first published in 1980 in volume one of the Srila Prabhupada Lilamrita, the authorized biography of R.L.A. prabhupada. Portions have also appeared in some of the annual Vyas Puja books. With the approach of RLA Prabhupada Sentinel in 1996, we feel it's fitting that the diary be presented in its entirety. Srila Prabhupada once wrote in a letter about the need of meticulously preserve the writing writings of the previous Acharyas, especially their handwritings as follows. Quote from Srila Prabhupada we may take care of them by treating them against insects and storing them in a tight dry storage place where they may be preserved for future generations of Vaishnavas to see the actual handwritings and words of such great saintly persons. Treat this matter very seriously and thoroughly and take all precautions to protect this wonderful boon of literature forever. These items are very, very priceless and are a great treasure house of Vaishnava lore. So be very careful in the matter to take all precaution to guard them. Letter to achutananda Das dated June 1972. Again in the Chaitanya Chaitamrita there is a description of Shri Caitanya Mahpravhu praising Srila rupa Goswami. Rupa Goswami's fastidious handwriting Sri C Antiya 197 to 96 to 97 Thus the handwriting specimens of pure devotees are intimate mementos of their spiritual lives, and we must therefore consider ourselves most fortunate to have the remnants of Rla Prabhupada's handwriting. This diary of the Voyage of the Jaladuta is a personal account of the challenging journey that launched Rla Prabhupada's life mission. Readers will find it to be a remarkable document in the history of religious movements. It reveals the full measure of Srila Prabhupada's devotion, faith and self abnegation which qualify him as one of the world's few genuine spiritual leaders. We hope this book will inspire others to appreciate Srila Prabhupada's triumph over adversity and to follow in his footsteps.

So you should be inspired to appreciate Srila Bhabhara's triumph or adversity and Rallah in his footsteps.

So we should appreciate Srila Prabhupada's triumph over adversity and follow his footsteps.

Not that there's some obstacle. So okay, I'll give up.

Not that there's somewhat obstacle, obstacle and I'll give up.

No, no. In starting all the obstacles, starting all the difficulties we want to all the adversities we want to follow in Prabhupada's footsteps.

In spite of all the obstacles, all the difficulties, all the all the adversities we want to follow Rla Prabhupada and serve him.

Now it's not easy to preach Krishna Consciousness and call you up.

It's not easy to preach Ka Consciousness in Kali Yuga.

And when we so many obstacles.

There may be so many obstacles and

so we want to proceed ahead.

So we want to proceed ahead in spite of all the difficulties

also.

This is the introduction. This is the introduction.

Now. Now this process is the background.

So now this preface is the background

and now the introduction.

Now we'll read the introduction. Introduction. Srila Prabhupada was instructed by his spiritual master Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur to preach Krishna Consciousness to the English speaking peoples. Toward this end, his Divine grace Abhay Charnaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami published the first bhakt magazine in 1944. He also began to write translations and commentaries on Bhagavad Gita, Rmad Bhagavatam, Chaitanya Charitamrita and other vedic literatures. In 1965, after publishing three volumes of RMAD Bhagavatam, he approached the owner of the Scindia Steam Navigation Aviation Company, Sumati Morarji, for a complimentary passage to the United States. After considering his request for some time, she finally agreed and issued him the ticket in the port of Calcutta, Calcutta ON August 13, 1965, carrying only a small suitcase, an umbrella and a bag of dry cereal. AC Bhaktivedanta Swami, as he was known at that time. At that time climbed up on the steep gangway onto the cargo ship named Jaladuta. The ensuing journey presented considerable hardship. Considerable hardship. Srila Prabhupada wrote some of Seasickness and on the 13th day of his of the voyage during the passage through the Arabian Sea, he suffered a massive heart attack. He was concerned that he might pass away. But in his uneasy sleep that night he had a dream, a vision. Lord Krishna appeared. Lord was in an open boat along with his other incarnations. Krishna was rowing the boat and the boat was pulling Srila Prabhupada's ship with a rope. Krishna was smiling at Rla Prabhupada and was pulling the ship all the way to America. Srila Prabhupada did not write about this occurrence in his diary, but simply drew a line through those troubled days, declaring that he has passed over a great crisis in the struggle between life and death. Years later, he related these events to his followers. After the crisis, Rla Prabhupada regained his strength and recommended his entries in the diary. After the ship docked in Port Said, Egypt, then after crossing the Mediterranean Sea, the Jaladuta passed through the Straits of Giblartar and into the Atlantic Ocean. Uncharacteristically, the ocean appeared like a placid lake. The Atlantic crossing was so effortless that the ship's captain remarked that he had never seen anything like it. After total of 35 days, the ship at last berthed in Boston at Commonwealth pier on the September 17th. At 5:30am the next day, the Jaladuta continued to New York where Srila Prabhupada embarked to a lonely Brooklyn pier to begin his mission in the West. In our presentation of the Jaladuta diary, we have also included photographs of noteworthy memorabilia, Srila Prabhupada's passport memorabilia, Srila Prabhupada's passport and visa, the ticket issued by Scindia Steam Navigation Company, the sponsorship of Gopal Agarwal, and handwritten copies of the two poems that Srila Prabhupada wrote upon arriving in America, Prayers to the Lotus Feet of Lord Krishna and Markini Bhagavad Dharma. Some of Srila Prabhupada's descriptions of the Chaladuta journey from his conversations and letters are also reproduced here. These have appeared in the previous archival publications and may be found in entirety in the computer database of Srila Prabhupada's complete works. We offer many thanks to Bali Mardan Das, Sundarakara Das Maya, Priya Devidasi Jhanava Devitasi who did the color illustrations, and to many other devotees whose efforts have made this publication a reality. This is a sequel to this diary. In New York in January 1966 Srila Prabhupada began recording another diary which spans the period from January to October of that year. This diary is not well known to devotees as the Jaladuta Diary, but it covers the time when R.L.A. prabhupada was a guest at Dr. R. Mishra up till the International Society Society for KA Consciousness ISKCON was incorporated and the first Back to God hit magazine was published by Srila Prabhupada's early Western followers. We also intend to publish the second diary as an offering for the Srila Prabhupada Centennial. Srila Prabhupada is the preeminent Acharya of the Gaudiya Vaishnava Sampradaya of our time. His voyage on the Jaladuta 30 go marked the beginning of his arrival in America, saw the Hare Ka movement spread to major cities worldwide. For millennia, the Vedic tradition had been hidden behind the boundaries of India and within Sanskrit and the vernacular languages. To a world immersed in materialistic ethos, Srila Prabhupada revealed the wisdom of this timeless philosophy. The Bhaktivedanta Archives.

So I hope that by reading this

diary of Jaladuth hope by reading this

diary of Jaladut we can realize how much austerity rather unto true to reach another.

So we can realize how much austerity Srila Prabhupada went through to reach America

and how he spread the vision of Lord Chaitanya and how he spread the

mission of Lord Caitanya.

Well, sometimes in India because of the great success in the preaching in India,

sometimes we forget this in India because of the great success of preaching in

India, only the first came and now the Lord is India.

When he first came, there were no devotees in India.

And gradually we were increasing.

And gradually we were increasing.

But the first devotees that came to help Prabhupada were the Western devotees.

But the first devotees who came to help Srila Prabhupada were the Western devotees.

So I was one of them.

So I was one of them.

We tried to serve Srila Brahman.

So we tried to serve Srila Prabhupada.

And so now the roots are being somewhat realized.

So now the fruits have been somewhat realized.

But. Raw vision was we should see what Chaitanya's prediction that every town and railroads.

So eventually we have to realize Srila Prabhupada desired that in every town and village Lord Chaitanya's names would be sung.

We should be inspired by Rah Ra's example.

So we should Be inspired by Srila Prabhupada's example and his example and his example.

So you want to see that the whole world so the also made Ka conscious.

So we want to see that the whole world also should be made Ka conscious.

So if you all take up this matter very diligently so if you all

take up this matter very diligently we can have could happen.

I will. So I hope that all the devotees are inspired and went from here. They go with a commitment to strive Krishna consciousness.

So we hope all the devotees would be inspired from here and go with the commitment to expand the Ka Consciousness movement.

I was preaching to the.

So today I was preaching to the Russian speaking community. There are many obstacles in Russia, many obstacles in Kasha Deshauders made the progress

in all these situations. The devotees need to progress the devotees

need to progress in all this situation.

So you see the Prabhupada went to the west with only a small leg.

So we see that Srila Prabhupada went to the west only with a small suitcase.

Translated only for

he had only translated the first canto of Srimad Bhagavatam.

I bought one copy of that.

I bought one copy of that.

It was although printing was not so nice.

Although the printing was not so nice. It was very revolution but it was very revolutionary.

So now Prabhupada has published many books.

Now Prabhupada has published many books.

The Lord should also read those books, study them.

Devotees should also read those books, study them.

Degrees to prove that they have done

that and take different degrees to prove that they have done that.

Blessings Christian love. There are still.

There are also some new devotees who have arrived here in Maypur. I think there is a devotee Shamala Gopika Mataji from usa. Where are you? Ah, she's here. Okay. Haribol also today is there's a birthday girl Radha. Where is she? Radha from Balram Desh. Radha from Balram Desh. Gurmas, give her blessing. Happy birthday. Anybody else who have arrived in Mayapur today? There's a devotee from Sydney. Anybody else? Raise your hand up. Put your hand up. Arrived in Mayapur todaya from Sydney all the way Hare Krishna and most likely there'll be no class tomorrow. Most likely there'll be no class tomorrow because Gurmara is going to the pandal near Gita Bhavan for the Srila Prabhupada Konak day. It's a Bengali program but I think there'll be some translation in English also. So and then after that there is an Adivas program. So most likely there'll be no class here. We'll announce this in the Facebook Hare Krishna but most likely no you can enjoy the program there in the tent and temple room.

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