20260304 - Jaladuta Diary_Part_2

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So today we will be reading from Srila Prabhupada's Jaladuta Diary. So we'll read whatever Prabhupada has written, and we'll start from here. April, uh, 1965, Saturday 3rd, uh, saw the Andheri residence. Good. One sat, kept with Nagarajan One sat capped with Acharya. Monday, he inquired Mafatlal, Sri Sidhanand, Theosophical, SNDT, the charity officers, Wilson College, Vidya Bhavan, etc., Mr. Dasdurr, Matunga Colleges. Okay, Tuesday, Tuesday 6th. Madonna Sophia Wadia, New Marine Lines, Theosophical Hall, purchased 1 times 3 copies, paid cheque for ₹48. Thursday, 8th, at 12 noon at Sri Paramhanta's house, dine. Friday, 9th, 8:30, 8:30 to 9 AM. Sri RV Murthy, number 5, Ratan Lodge, uh, behind Aurora Cinema, King's Circle, at 1:30 to 2 PM. Sri TK Sheshadri, news editor, Economic Times, Times of India, VT Sunday 11th at 9 AM invitation at Malat Lak Shankar's house. Am I audible? So the volume of my voice? Oh, so okay. Monday to see Gandhi. To see Gandhi, Soumya Inter, Wilson Colony, Gulabchand Kapadia. Tuesday, 13th, to see the Father Principal at 10 to 11, St. Xavier. First Day, 15th, to see Gandhi's secretary between 11 to 1 PM. Wednesday, 21st, to unpack the books, Sri Ramakrishna Banking Corporation, Nagarajam, Batkal. Thursday, 29th, Principal, St. Xavier's Institution of Education, Bombay, kept one cheque to be paid on 30th April '65 in the afternoon. May 1965. Sunday the 2nd, Kanakia met at bilay parlay at his house. He kept one set books with all literatures to decide in 4 to 5 days. He gave me some addresses of friends to be seen. A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami.

So, you see that Prabhupada was personally involved and wrote this.

So we can see that Śrīla Prabhupāda was personally involved in book distribution. He was distributing his first canto sets of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Okay. Tuesday, 4th, to see Mr. C. Rai of Indochem Limited. 2021, Dada Bhai Nawar Ji Road, Bombay 1, after 11, books kept at house by servant Sanjik. Thursday 6th, to see Sethi Indulekham, to see Chokshi Desai, to see Somani Ji, to see Bank and Premkutir and Mahfatlal, to see Janam Jammnadass, if possible, see Pratap Singh. 10th Monday: To see Bhutkal at Tardio at 12 noon. Telephone Kanakia at 9 AM. Tuesday, 11th: To see Bhutkal before 1 PM. To remind Chandrashekar of my letter of 29th April '65. As well as of the change of address. Wednesday, 12th, to see bad girl between 4 to 5, to see Savanti Bhai 3 to 4, to see somebody at 4 PM. Thursday, 13th, to call phone 72219 at 9 AM, Brajlal D. Kanakia, Rancho Das, Rancho Das, okay, whatever, Kanjiswadi, Vitalbai Patel Road, Bombay 4th, 1st floor apartment Girgaon. Shh. PO to call phone 74804 Gokarn at 10:30. Friday 14th to see Jan Das Madhoji at 2 PM Forbes Street 43/44. Kala Glusa. Saison building, Saison building, 4/30, 52nd floor, P. Varajlal Durlabh De and Co. Saturday, 15th, MO for 25 under postal receipt number 3,000 1. What is DT? District. Okay. 15th, uh, May '65, Yogakshema Post Office to Pandit Shri Krishna Sharma, Delhi. Similar to 3402 to Gora Chand Goswami, Brindavan. Sunday, 16th at 9 AM, Dixit Ji said Varaj Lal at 4:30 at his house, Gurgaon. Friday 24th, 21st, see Raj Lal to phone Chandrashekar. See Dixit for take food and rest. See Sumati, Ben— oh, Ben's sister. 6, Dharmasai, Dharamsai, Katau, Katau. Gokuldas, 8 Allied Publisher. Introduction letter to C.D. Deshpoot, copy to Sachdevi. Mr. Chokshi met in presence of Sumati Ben. Chokshi said, as soon as the following things are presented, free pass will be issued. Passport and visa and the P form. Thursday, 27th, purchase ticket for Delhi sleeping reserved on date starting at 8:40, Janata Express, ticket number 8987/23/27/5, paid reservation number 56713/51, ₹17. 32. Quite intense. Um, June 1965. Okay, we have completed, completed a month, or two months actually, April and May. Okay, Wednesday 9th. Sunil Raizada, post box, blockman, photo man, letters to friends, KC Raj. Friday 11th, rupees 9 rupees 80 paisa and one photo, um, letter to Skindia from India to Pennys— uh, Venezuela and back. Pennsylvania. Sorry, sorry. Oh my God, my bad. Sunday 13th Ticket purchased for Bombay for starting on 22nd, 6/65 at 9:00, Dehradun Express, ticket number 12285. What is RES? Receipt number? No, reservation number or receipt number? Reservation number 85593. Paid rupees 30, 40 paisa. July 1965, first day to see Choksi at 12 noon. Friday 9th to see bank manager J.M. Choksi. Passport number 1 slash— no, okay, I, I-27, uh, 276896. District Delhi, 10th, uh, June 1965, Saturday at 3 PM to phone Sri Rajlal Seth, at 4 PM to see Gokuldas Somaya. Oh, okay. Sunday 11th at 8 AM to phone Tarachan Gupta. Monday 12th at 6 PM to meet Mr. Pindiwala, Chartered Accountant, Bangur Brothers Private Limited, Netaji Subhash Road, Calcutta. Oh, um, Wednesday 21st, Mirflex Bar was purchased at ₹1 AC Bhaktivedanta, right? Friday, 23rd, passport with choksi for showing to Panchal. 24th, sleeping birth on 1st April— uh, 1st August 1965 for Howrah Reserve, ticket number 49031, district 24 July 1965, paid ₹42, ₹42.70 paisa. Oh, okay. What is NP? No problem. I mean, whatever. Reservation ticket number 21346. DT, date. Okay, uh, 24th July 65. ACB train starting at 17, uh, that means it's not 19, that means 7, 7 PM. Okay, and then Tuesday, P form number 63753, EC co-pass number 11012. Date: 27th July 1965. Reserve Bank of India. Wednesday. ₹25 remitted by MO to Gora Chand Goswami before leaving for USA. June, July, August, September to October. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. My P-form and visa for USA obtained by Choksi. First day, Dhar worker delivered— wrote— RD means what? Wrote one package of books, Srimad Bhagavatam 45, booked by Universal Book House, Dadar, to Kolkata. What is FP? FP under PWB number B678 078, date 29th July '65, from Dada FH to pay ₹750 paisa. Okay, um, Friday 30th, Mr. JM Choksi today handed me— handed over me the following documents. First, the passport. P-form passed on date 27 July '65. Original letter and no objection certificate from Gopal P. Agarwal. Copies of letters for Calcutta office, India Steam Navigation Co. Fifth, international certificate and vaccination, 3 years and 6 months. Would you like to say something? Okay. So we see that Prabhupada, in order to go to America, he had to do many things. And he was doing all this alone. So how much we should be indebted to him? So how much we should be indebted to him? August 1965, Sunday. To start for Calcutta by Calcutta Mail via Nagpur, starting from Bori-Baner, Banrare at 7 PM in the evening. What is— what? Ticket dated 24th July '65. Luggage booked. Received number 8116695. Paid ₹12.20 paisa. Tuesday reached at 65A Pachuri. Pachori Ghat State. Ram Kumar Bangur, Dharamshala. At about 1 PM, Shri Govindlalal Bangur sent his men to receive me. Received letter from Chaitanya Bharati, New Delhi, dated 1st August 1965, and also from Govindaraj Maharaj, Govind Maharaj, dated 31st July '65. Thursday the 5th. Sri Kanai Banerjee coming today to see me at any time. Friday 6th morning to start for Mayapur and return back in the evening. The journey— the Jaladuta sets sail for America. Hello, Haribo! Tuesday, August, to start for USA by MV Jaladuta from Calcutta Port King George Dockyard. Um, Dockyard. Um, 13th Friday, today at 9 AM, embarked on MV Jaladuta. Came with me Bhagavati, the Dwarwan of Skindia Sunset. Mr. Sengupta, Mr. Ali, and Brindaban, Prabhupada's son. The cabinet is quite comfortable. It's, uh, it is owner's residence, and therefore the sitting room, the bedroom, and the bath, and privy, all equipped with first-class materials. Everything is nice in the first-class compartment. And thanks to Lord Sri Krishna for his enlightening Srimati Sumati Maharaj for all this arrangement. I'm quite comfortable. The ship started at 1:30 PM very slowly from the dock and reached the Botanical Garden and stopped at midstream of Ganges till 11 PM and then turned towards the front and started. It is quite steady. I cannot understand in my cabin if it is at all moving. I'm so comfortable. The voyage was given— stopped— it was again stopped at 3:30 AM at Kalpi near Diamond Harbor and Gano Kali, with, with, and detained for about 8 hours. The delta of the Ganges is quite wide with shallow water. Saturday, Saturday 14th, the ship started about 11 o'clock in the morning, majestically. I do not feel any jerking whatsoever. But on reaching the Bay of Bengal, it is tilting. There is tilting of the ship and little rolling also. The roughness increased gradually on the upper Bay of Bengal. I felt seasickness. There was vomiting, vomiting tendency. The dizziness, and I felt uncomfortable the whole day and night. The sea was for me all through. It appeared like a big plate of water extending to 40 square miles, but factually it was endless. So today it is vivid example of God's Maya because it appears like something, but factually it's something else. Would you like to say something?

So we see that Divine Grace.

So we see His Divine Grace. Hesī-baktivedānta Swāmi Śrīla Prabhupāda was given a first-class compartment by Sumati Morarji.

Once he entered the Bay of Bengal, there was some agitation.

So, once he entered the Bay of Bengal, there was some agitation. He wanted to see— So he was busy informing— What? What? Vomiting tendency.

So, the ocean is actually unlimited.

So the ocean is actually unlimited. But he was seeing it with some sense. So I wanted to read this to relate how Srila Prabhupada was enduring so much to give Krishna consciousness to the West. To carry out the order of his spiritual master. Sunday, 15th, in the morning I woke up and felt a little better. But I felt no hunger. Took only one glass of lemon sikanji, lemon drink with nimbu pani. Lemon drink slash nimbu pani. But the head dizziness is continuing. Up to 10:30, I was in the captain's room, radio room, chatting with the officers. In the radio room, they were dispatching news to other ships. The captain room is full of nautical paraphernalia. I saw the chart of different— apri— apri— no, no, appearance— photo of the sea. The grades are 0 to 10 degrees, and I think we are passing on the sea between 4 to 7 points. The scene of the 10th point was furious and the 12th serious. The captain advised me to take more solid food. Monday, 16th. Today early in the morning I saw the ship is playing, flying on the surface of the sea almost on zero degree of waves. Yesterday night was comfortable, and although I did not take my lunch, I took a little chhara morki, puffed rice or chivdo, with milk. The ship ran all the night yesterday smoothly, and the sky, although not very clear, there was moonlight in the night. In the morning, there was sunshine, but after 11, the sea became a little more rough, showing foamy waves from distance. After passing the latitude of Trichinopoly, oh, Trichinopoly, Trichinopoly, we experienced a dark cloud subsequently raining all over the sea. The siren sounded on account of hazy vision. To warn other ships coming from opposite direction. At about 12 noon, it was raining heavily and the ship stopped moving, occasionally sounding the siren. There is constant sounds of thunderbolt. This is the first time I am experiencing heavy rains in the midst of deep ocean. From 12 noon, we are passing through cyclonic weather. Weather: This ship is tilting too much. I felt seasickness all day and night. At 3 PM, the ship turned towards Ceylon coast and we are now in the Ceylon water. 17th Tuesday: Today morning, the sky is scattered with cloud. The ship is going toward the west, toward western side. I feel a little bit well after passing my stool. The ship is running against the wind current. The sea is little rougher. At 10:30, saw the south coast of Ceylon with a white lighthouse. Two ships passed from the opposite side. Some daring fishermen were fishing in small boats. From distance, they appeared almost drowned in the water, but the next moment they appeared to be safely working. There is sunshine, but the sky is not clear. The captain informed me that the next 6 hours we shall reach Colombo Port. The hilly, uh, southernmost Ceylon coast is said to be 4 to 5 miles away from our ship. This means fishermen were fishing in small boats 5 to 10 miles away from their native coast. Certainly very daring job. At about 2 PM, we have now turned towards northern front. The sky is cloudy, but we are forwarding steadily. Today I was better than other 3 days. At 3 PM, the Colombo city became faintly visible from the ship. The color of water in India India Ocean is different from that of Bay of Bengal. The ship reached exactly at 4:30 in the port, but the management of Colombo Port could not receive the ship for want of berth, and then it is anchored on the shore waiting to enter the port. At 9 PM, the ship was escorted by the pilot and we entered the dockyard. Dockyard, sorry. Very old pattern. But there were many ships from various countries, including passenger and cargo ships. At night, the dockyard ships assumed a brilliant aspect on account of profuse light. We rested the whole night, the ship being anchored. The next morning, Barges loaded with goods arrived near the ship. Guruji, it's 8:30 now.

So, all the— let's start journey. So this historic journey and all the, uh, austerities that was going through, and all the austerities that Srila Prabhupada was going through, and, uh, so we're here and all Details.

So we are hearing all these details. All of us feeling seasick. Vomiting tendency.

And the situation was very critical.

And the situation was very critical. So Prabhupada was enduring all this to carry out the orders of his spiritual master.

And to spread Krishna consciousness in the Western world.

And to spread Krishna consciousness in the Western world.

How interesting. No, it's quite interesting how he was enduring all this.

How Srila Prabhupada, he was enduring all this. This is our just for our benefit. Srila Prabhupada ki Guru Mahaj is blessing all of you. Krishna has an announcement.

Do we have Croatian devotees here?

Croatian?

Yes. Gurumaharaj, this is a book one of your disciples, Sachi Kumar Gauradas, him and his entire team of devotees They translated this Gauranga book into Croatian language. Can someone take picture? But of course, this devotee, Sacikumar Gaura Das, is not with us anymore. Recently he left his body, but he has left behind a wonderful book as a service to Guru Maharaj. So let's together pray for his onward spiritual journey. Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. A gift to you. We also have two more books in Chinese language, Jalandhima Mataji. One is on the pastimes of Lord Narasimhadev and Lord Rajapur Jagannath Baladeva Svatra. A group of devotees, matajis from Rajasthan here. They are leaving tomorrow morning. They want to take a picture with you, Guru Maharaj. If you can bring Guru Maharaj there. Take a picture. Maharishi will— Maharishi Prabhu will take a picture. After that, please meet Maharishi Prabhu and collect your picture. Please give some space for the Rajasthani matajis to be here. They came all the way from Rajasthan by camel. Say sorry, turn around. Give them a special privilege over here. Okay, only the Rajasthani matajis come forward. Yes, ready?

1, 2. Okay, good. Wonderful, wonderful.

That's the camera corner. All right. And also we have Aravindaksha Prabhu and his good wife. They are leaving tomorrow. Blessing for them.

Haribol.

Okay. Guru Maharas tomorrow, please come for the class. He will be Gurumaharaj is going to talk about the holy place on safari that we're going on the next day, about Agra Dweep. And Guru Maharaj will be talking about Chakundi. These are the places where there will be the installation of the footprints of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu on the 6th. So please, if you are in Mayapur, please come for the class. And here about the holy places. Every day will be like this in the next 6 days. Guru Maharaj will be talking about the holy places that safari will be going to visit the next day. And also we will be posting the videos and photographs so you can all participate and also give blessings on this transcendental journey. Hare Krishna.

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