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Remembering
Jayananda Prabhu compiled
by Kala-kantha Das |
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Remembering
Jayananda Prabhu compiled
by Kala-kantha Das After the
disappearance of Jayananda Das on May 1, 1977, His Divine Grace Srila
Prabhupada instructed devotees all over the world to commemorate the event
every year as they would any great Vaishnava's disappearance day.
Therefore we respectfully submit these pages to all devotees and friends
of ISKCON as a means to remember and understand more about Jayananda's
devotional service. Of course, we will see how he joined ISKCON and how he
left this mortal world. More importantly, we shall see the astounding
qualities possessed by a true devotee, a sincere disciple and genuine
servant of Srila Prabhupada. *
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* * Jayananda's
Beginnings In Krishna Consciousness Jayananda
was the all-American boy. Handsome, strong, intelligent, born in a more
than middle-class family, Jayananda (Jim Kohr) took a degree in mechanical
engineering from Ohio State University. With a background like that, it is
surprising that Jayananda ended up as a cab driver in San Francisco.
Karandhara once asked him why he didn't get a better-paying job. “I
didn't fit in with the upper class crowd,” he said. Always
introspective in nature, Jayananda felt empty and unsatisfied within
himself during his college years. He would often say that he was “never
happy” before joining Krishna consciousness. His depression was almost
suicidal when, in 1967, he read a small article in a San Francisco paper,
about an Indian Swami who had come to the Bay Area to propagate the
chanting of the names of God. Jayananda recalled feeling a “ray of
hope” when he read that article. Thinking the Swami may have something
to offer, Jayananda made up his mind to attend the Swami's lectures. Srila
Prabhupada's early lectures in the Bay Area were mostly attended by
hippies, and Jayananda was one of the only “straight” people there.
Jayananda later recalled that, “I wasn't much of a religionist, but I
was attracted to Srila Prabhupada.” He was especially fond of attending
the early morning lectures because at that hour, most of the hippies would
be in bed. On some occasions Jayananda would be the only guest listening
to Srila Prabhupada speak from the Bhagavatam. Srila
Prabhupada was always fond of Jayananda, and sometimes he would invite his
budding disciple to take prasad with
him in his room. “Srila Prabhupada would cook prasad and serve me,” Jayananda recalled. “He didn't say
anything — he just kept feeding me, and I kept eating.” Jayananda soon
donated his life savings of $5,000 to Srila Prabhupada to help His Divine
Grace print the Bhagavad-Gita As It
Is. As more and more devotees joined ISKCON in the Bay Area, Jayananda
continued to work as a cab driver and supported the Temple by contributing
all of his earnings. Jayananda's
Attraction For The Process Of Krishna Consciousness Chandan
Acharya Prabhu remembers this special feature about Jayananda: “He was
completely enamored by Krishna consciousness. Even when he'd go out on
incense runs all by himself, he would rise every morning before four, have
a little mangal-artik, chant all
his rounds, read and cook prasad. He
never deviated. He loved it. He was completely happy as long as he was
practicing Krishna consciousness.” Take prasadam,
for example. Jayananda worshiped prasadam.
When a little prasad spilled
on the floor, he would always bend down on all fours and lick it up. He
loved to cook, offer, distribute and eat prasad
in a big way. He would always take prasad
with him and distribute it, whether he was making a bhoga run (buying bulk foods from the market) or taking a chanting
party downtown. He would even say “prasadam”
in a special way that made you immediately want to take some. Jayananda
knew how to attract people to Krishna consciousness with the prasadam
weapon. When a new devotee came, for example, Jayananda would see to
it that he was sumptuously fed with prasadam.
When Jambavan Das was just becoming a devotee, Jayananda would bring
him a plate of prasadam so big that he thought he could never eat it all. When he
finally did finish the plate, Jayananda immediately put an identical plate
down before him. “I can't eat that,” said Jambavan. “Srila
Prabhupada said that we should eat 'til we waddle like a duck,” said
Jayananda. Jambavan would finish the second plate. Of course,
Jayananda himself could be found honoring large quantities of prasad
anytime day or night. He was the kind of devotee who would come up to
you at ten o'clock with some peanut butter halava
and say, “Hey, Prabhu, come here — check this out!” Another
example of his attachment to Krishna consciousness is Jayananda's love for
kirtan (chanting). Jayananda was
always eager to take the whole Temple out on hari-nama chanting parties. He had a special attraction for chanting
in the streets. Whether kirtan was
held in the temple or in the street, Jayananda could always be seen
dancing and chanting enthusiastically. When he was making Maharaja Das
into a devotee, Jayananda would visit his house and have big kirtans. Even if there were only two of them, they would jump and
chant “Nitai-Gaur Hari-bol!” Also,
Karandhara recalls how, one day, after working very hard for ten hours
straight, Jayananda suddenly announced, “Hey, it's ten to seven. Let's
go to artik.” Everyone else
was so tired that artik was the
last thing on their minds, but Jayananda quickly jumped into the shower
and then bounced down to the temple room for artik. Of all the
processes of Krishna consciousness, Jayananda was most attached to
preaching. Whether it was during the Sunday feast, while making incense
runs, or while building Ratha-yatra carts, Jayananda was always trying to
find some person with whom he could share his ecstasy in Krishna
consciousness. His preaching was very simple and easy to listen to. “We
just have to keep chanting and have faith in the Name.” “We just have
to chant and take prasadam. Srila
Prabhupada is so kind to give us such a simple process.” Karandhara
remembers how Jayananda preached to him on his first day in the temple. As
they worked together preparing a little garden for Srila Prabhupada at the
old Los Angeles temple. Jayananda said, “You know, things don't always
go just right in Krishna consciousness. You have to keep chanting.” At
the time, Karandhara couldn't imagine how anything could go wrong in
Krishna's service. Years later, however, as he found himself still
remembering those words, Karandhara could appreciate the real potency of
what Jayananda had said. “So many things may come and go. Just have
faith in the Name.” Jayananda's
preaching was very attractive for the non-devotees. Chandan Acharya
recalls seeing Jayananda engaged in preaching late one night. It was
11:30, and Jayananda was up fixing a broken-down sankirtan van. As he lay on his back working under the van, he
preached to two hippies who were standing nearby. All they could see of
him was a pair of legs, but they stood by listening, completely absorbed,
as Jayananda worked and preached away. As soon as
he felt a person was at all ready, Jayananda would preach to him about
chanting and about Srila Prabhupada. There was no protocol or strict
etiquette. Just sincere and confidential glorification of Krishna. True to
his character, Jayananda was often seen preaching to guests from his
wheelchair even during his last days in this world. Devotees who knew him
could tell from a distance exactly what he was saying: “You just have to
have faith in the Name.” Jayananda's
Humility Humility
was certainly Jayananda's most prominent quality. He treated everyone as
his superior, even new devotees. Maharaja Das remembers that Jayananda was
always asking his advice: “Hey, Bhakta Mike, what do you think of
this?” Although his service was glorious, he never wanted any glory. He
avoided praise like the plague. Devotees got to know that if they wanted
to be around him, they'd better not praise Jayananda. Otherwise he would
simply leave. Once when he was with Danavir, someone came to Jayananda and
began praising him. Jayananda just ignored it. Later he turned to Danavir
and said, “You know, if you've been around this movement a few years,
people naturally offer you some respect.” Not that his service or
qualities were so great, he just was around a few years was his humble
thinking. If he ever spoke about himself at all, Jayananda would speak so
humbly that Lochan Das recalls, “It was difficult not to think of
yourself as being better than him. If you had any reason to be puffed up,
Jayananda would bring it out in you.” Feeling himself unworthy, he would
step aside so that others could lead kirtan, give classes, or do artik.
Instead, he could be found fixing cars, unplugging toilets, washing
dishes, or taking out trash. Once a new
boy came to visit the San Francisco temple. He wanted to help, so Kesava
Das sent him to the trash area where Jayananda was preparing the weekly
trash run. Jayananda told the boy, “I'm the garbage man around here. For
years I've been watching garbage men carry out trash, and now Krishna is
giving me a chance to do this for Him.” The boy not only helped load the
trash, but accompanied Jayananda to the garbage dump. Later that boy
became a devotee, and he recalled thinking, “If the garbage men at this
temple can be so blissful, just imagine what the rest of the devotees are
like!” Karandhara
recalls another incidence of Jayananda's humility. “One day, before
Ratha-yatra, I spent the whole day running around with Jayananda. By the
time we got back to the temple it was midnight. The whole building was so
crowded that we couldn't find any space to lie down. Finally we found room
in one little storage closet. I was so tired that all I could do was throw
my sleeping bag on the floor and lie down. Then I saw Jayananda walking
out of the room. I asked him, `Where are you going?' He said he'd be right
back, but I kept pressing him, and finally he explained that he had some
rounds of japa chanting to
finish up. He didn't want to keep me awake by chanting in our room, nor
did he want me to feel bad because he was going out to do something else.
He just wanted to slip away to some corner and fulfill his vow. I remember
saying, `Sometimes it's not possible to finish all one's rounds because
there is so much work to do.' `That's okay, I'm not too tired,' Jayananda
replied. I was amazed not only by his consideration for me but by his full
submission to Srila Prabhupada.” Although
perfectly qualified, Jayananda was reluctant to take a post as temple
president or sannyasi. It was
not that he wouldn't or couldn't do it — he would do whatever was asked
of him. He was happiest just to be working under someone. In this way he
was the backbone of the Bay Area's ISKCON temple for years. Through
frequently changing administrations, he would always faithfully serve the
acting temple president. He was very special, and yet no one paid any
special attention to him. That was just the way he liked things. Jayananda's
Service Attitude Jayananda
was always ready to do whatever was necessary to push on Krishna
consciousness. He was expert at everything: cooking, preaching, Deity
worship, public relations, sankirtan,
selling incense, construction, and everything else it takes to run a
temple. He was a tireless worker. He would be the first one up in the
morning and the last one to sleep at night. It was Jayananda who was
always running out to get the flowers, Jayananda who was washing dishes
and making sure the kitchen was clean, Jayananda who was often missing
class while he was out doing some service, and Jayananda who was always
encouraging others to go out and preach, and setting the example himself.
Whatever assignment he was given, he would always get done, even if he had
to suffer personally for it. No matter how hard he was working, he would
never stop for a nap during the day. He seemed to be inexhaustible. Jambavan
Prabhu remembers that many times the San Francisco devotees would go out
to Berkeley to distribute the leftover prasad
after a Sunday feast. “First Jayananda would be in the kitchen
cleaning. Then someone would say, `Hey how about this leftover prasadam?'
Jayananda would say, `Okay, first let's get this kitchen clean.' He
would organize the cleanup crew and then work twice as hard as anybody.
Then he would transfer the prasad, load
it and the devotees into the van, drive the van to Berkeley, organize the
distribution of prasad, and lead
the kirtan while we
distributed.” In later
years, when he was with the Radha Damodar Traveling Sankirtan Party,
Jayananda would help manage and sustain the traveling bus program and
simultaneously do all day sankirtan day
in and day out, side by side with brahmacharis
scarcely half his age. In spite of his advanced position and
seniority, he never asked for any special treatment. Leading devotees
would often describe him as “the most advanced devotee in the
movement.” Jayananda's
Freedom From Fault-finding Those who
knew Jayananda always noticed one remarkable quality about him: he could
not criticize others. It was against his nature. Even if a devotee did
something which warranted criticism, Jayananda would usually say nothing,
or else something that made the mistake appear to be perfectly
understandable. No matter who was giving class or leading kirtan, he would always appreciate it. He never spoke harsh words or
chastised anybody. If one devotee was criticizing another within earshot
of Jayananda, Jayananda would simply leave. Rather
than criticize others, Jayananda would contribute nothing less than
positive Krishna conscious energy to any situation. Sometimes devotees
would bring up their expansive aspirations for spreading Krishna
consciousness. Jayananda would always encourage their ideas, however
extraordinary. At the same time, he was not a fool. He could always pick
the right man to do a particular duty. Because he
knew how to encourage people, the temple leaders would always assign new
men to work with Jayananda. He saw no distinction between new devotee and
old devotee. Both were his superiors. He could quickly give a new man a
sense of identity and a feeling that he belonged in Krishna consciousness.
A true Vaishnava, he was expert at fanning any little spark of Krishna
consciousness into a big fire. Few will dispute the claim that Jayananda
made more devotees and helped more pull through than anyone else in the
movement. Dear
To Everyone Like the
Six Goswamis, Jayananda was “dear both to the gentle and the
ruffians.” He was as much at home with the Italians at the produce
market as with the brahmacharis in
the temple. He would make friends on street sankirtan,
and they would often come up to him and say, “Hey, where have you
been?” Once a devotee was approached by a staggering drunk in San
Francisco. The drunk looked at his robes and asked the devotee, “Hey,
where's my old friend Jayananda?” Many
devotees, including Danavir and Chandan Acharya, had the experience of
taking over Jayananda's old territory on incense-selling runs or bhoga
runs. They would meet people who said such things as, “Where is
Johnny Ananda?” or “That man — he's the nicest and most pure man
I've ever met.” One man told Chandan Acharya, “Well, I don't know much
about your philosophy, but if that Jayananda is into it, it must be all
right.” Once, near
the Ratha-yatra cart work site, Jayananda invited Keshava to step inside a
bar and meet some friends of his. They walked inside and immediately some
25 faces looked up and smiled brightly. Someone said, “Oh, this must be
your friend you were telling us about, the temple president.” They
presented the two devotees with a sack full of vegetarian groceries which
they had chipped in together to buy. Among the
devotees, Jayananda was like a big brother, always compassionate and
willing to listen to them. But devotees rarely burdened him with their
problems. “When you were around Jayananda,” said Karandhara, “you
had no problems.” The
devotees loved Jayananda and talked about him during long drives on
traveling sankirtan. He was dear
to them because he had a sense of humor, too. Jambavan recalls being
awakened one night at midnight by Jayananda. “Wake up,” said
Jayananda, “I've got a benediction for you.” He then pushed a big samosa into the sleepy Jambavan's mouth. Like
Maharaja Yudhisthira, Jayananda's enemy was never born. Expert
At Engaging Everyone Jayananda
was very eager to see everyone engaged in Krishna's service. He once
wrote, “When I reflect on my consciousness had I not had association
with devotees and Srila Prabhupada, I shudder to imagine the nightmare I
would be in. If we could become a little dedicated to distributing the
mercy, so many could be saved so much suffering.” Because of
his genuine compassion, Krishna gave Jayananda the unique ability to make
people want to serve Krishna, directly or indirectly. Whenever a new bhakta
would come, Jayananda made him feel that he was engaged in important
work. He was older, bigger and stronger than just about anyone in the
temple, and everyone was glad to be working under him. He was willing to
let people do things their own way, without getting finicky about details
— unless somebody's creativity interfered with practical necessity. New bhakta
or old, everyone felt satisfied after a day's work with Jayananda. This was
especially evident during Ratha-yatra time. Jayananda would organize a
crew of cynics, bloopers, uncooperative personalities and non-devotees off
the street to build the Ratha carts. Although many of his men sat down for
a smoke during breaks, he would get them to work 10, 12 or 14 hours a day.
He was always glorifying others and working hard himself. In fact, he
worked harder than anybody else. All those qualities made him very
inspiring to work with. Moreover,
there was something very personal about Jayananda that made everyone want
to help him. Once he and Maharaja Das were struggling to load a heavy
refrigerator on a truck. Two drunks were walking up the alley, and
Jayananda said, “I'm going to give them a chance to do some devotional
service.” His enthusiasm for devotional service was usually contagious,
and this was no exception. Those drunks were right in there helping, and
the job was done in no time. Afterwards, as usual, Jayananda said to the
drunks, “Now say Hare. Now say Krishna. Now say Hare Krishna.” “Hare
Krishna.” “Jai, Hari-bol! Thank you fellas. All glories to Srila
Prabhupada!” Jayananda's
Frugality Jayananda
was well known as a transcendental miser. He hated to spend any of Srila
Prabhupada's money. Personally he had almost no possessions, even during
his years as a householder. When he was on the road selling incense he
would sleep in the car or on a bench, or sometimes with friends he'd make
in various cities. Many of these friends, such as Maharaja Das and Jiva
Das, later became devotees as a result of Jayananda's preaching. Jayananda
would use his personal charm with people to get them to give everything
free or at a discount for Krishna. Without spending huge sums of money, he
would personally collect nearly all the bhoga, flowers, lumber, paint, and everything else needed to put on
Ratha-yatra each year. One year there were hundreds of devotees at the
temple to feed just before the festival. Jayananda went to see one of his
famous friends at the produce market — Banana King Louie. He came back
with four free truckloads of bananas and first-class pineapples. Coupled
with some donated milk products, the devotees ate bananas, pineapples and
cream — as much as anyone could eat — all for free. Jayananda
would get almost anything done for free, such as printing, advertising,
and mimeographing for Ratha-yatra publicity. What he couldn't get for
free, he'd get at a discount, and when he paid he'd get his money's worth.
For example, after the festival would end, he'd rent a big truck with
which to haul all the equipment back to the temple. Although the devotees
would be exhausted after weeks of hard work, he'd insist that everyone
come out and help pack things away, lest he have to keep the truck another
day and pay another $50 rent. Although
he was a senior devotee and could have had anything he wanted, he always
dressed in old dhotis and work
clothes which he'd buy for one dollar per set at the Salvation Army thrift
store. Jayananda:
King Of Ratha-yatra Jayananda
was the backbone of the Bay Area Ratha-yatra for years, and his
experiences at each one are summarized in the 1977 Ratha-yatra edition of Back
To Godhead magazine. Behind the scenes, Jayananda was doing everything
in preparation for each festival. He would beg food, flowers and funds,
buy materials and build the carts, advertise, arrange for permits, and
organize the cooking and serving of prasad.
Although things always went right down to the wire, he would
consistently succeed in fulfilling all his plans every year. After the
festival, Jayananda personally brought a prasadam
cake or pie to each and every person who had helped in some way or
another. Because of his efforts, the devotees in the Bay Area enjoy, to
this day, an amazingly harmonious relationship with the city officials. During the
weeks before the festival, Jayananda would sleep at the site where the
Ratha carts were under construction. He would rise every day at 4:00 A.M.
without fail, even if that meant he was getting only three hours sleep or
less. To keep his crew enlivened, he would cook fantastic prasadam
on a tiny gas stove at the site. The preparations were always
carefully offered, and each was filled with so much bhakti
that the temple devotees would sometimes sneak down to the cart site
just to get some. Jayananda
regarded his final Ratha-yatra, the 1976 festival in New York, to be his
“most successful.” Here is how he described the event in a letter to
Keshava Das: “Somehow
I got the good fortune to work on the New York Ratha-yatra. It was such an
auspicious opportunity. Prabhupada was coming, there was finally a
first-class center in Manhattan, and somehow Toshan got an O.K. to use
Fifth Avenue for the parade route. Jambavan was here and we had a couple
of other boys who worked very hard. I was praying that somehow we could
just get the carts finished. Somehow by Krishna's grace it worked out. You
wouldn't have believed some of the events. The night before the festival,
Saturday, at about 5 or 6 P.M., we were raising Balaram's dome and it was
at the top when a huge gust of wind caught it and blew the whole thing
over. The framework was all busted, the tubing twisted, etc. I didn't see
how we could rectify the situation as there was so much to do on the other
two carts. But two devotees who are expert builders vowed they'd somehow
get it back together. I had some extra pipes, etc., and they worked all
night and by Krishna's grace all three chariots were at Fifth Ave. and
59th St. by 6:30 A.M. Sunday morning.” “There's
no place like New York for Ratha-yatra. The parade was tremendous as was
the scene in the park. Even when we pulled the carts back to the
construction site people would come out of their apartments and bars and
chant Hare Krishna. I guess that occasion was the perfection of my career
in Krishna consciousness.” Jayananda's
Relationship With Srila Prabhupada Jayananda
said of Srila Prabhupada, “I knew he didn't want to cheat me so I wanted
to work for him.” In his dealings with Srila Prabhupada, Jayananda kept
his usual low profile. He was generally off working on some project when
Srila Prabhupada came to San Francisco. Their relationship was, therefore,
as Karandhara describes it, “one of old friends,” or “very
economical.” That is to say, Jayananda did not go in for long meetings
with Srila Prabhupada, even when all the other temple leaders were doing
so. By way of
reciprocation, Srila Prabhupada would invariably call for Jayananda when
he arrived in the temple. Sometimes he would have to make repeated
requests, and when Jayananda was finally located, he would resist, saying,
“No. I can't go to see him. I'm too dirty. I'm too fallen.” He'd work
after festivals and let others see Srila Prabhupada. Thus Jayananda's
relationship with Prabhupada was always one of service. Service to
Prabhupada was the core of Jayananda's life. Once Danavir asked him,
“How does one make spiritual advancement in Krishna consciousness?”
Jayananda answered, “I don't know. I'm too busy working to think about
it.” Srila
Prabhupada always appreciated Jayananda's sincere service. He wrote to
Jayananda in December, 1975: “I was
very happy to get your recent letter. I am always thinking of you and
praying to Krishna for your advancement in Krishna consciousness. Yes, I
remember the old days in San Francisco. Krishna has been so kind upon me
to have sent so many sincere disciples to help me push on this movement on
behalf of my Guru Maharaja. You continue with your program there in San
Francisco, always strictly keeping our principles and Krishna will bless
you with greater and greater realization of the importance of this
movement. I am dependent upon you, my older disciples, to carry it on. I
hope this meets you well.” Jayananda's
final meeting with Srila Prabhupada took place in New York City at the
1976 Ratha-yatra. When Prabhupada arrived at the airport, Jayananda drove
the car to pick him up. Prabhupada was sitting in the back seat and he
asked, “Who is driving?” The
devotees said, “This is Jayananda.” “Oh, I know Jayananda,” said
Prabhupada. “He gave me $5,000 to print my Bhagavad-Gita.” Prabhupada's
final letter to Jayananda, written after his disappearance in May 1977, is
enclosed herewith. Jayananda's
Fearlessness Jayananda
was not only big and powerful in body; he was strong with faith in
Krishna. Therefore nothing could frighten him. Once on San Francisco's
Market Street, Jayananda was playing mridanga and leading a kirtan party
when, down the street, an enormous man appeared. He was at least seven
feet tall and weighed perhaps three hundred pounds. His unkempt beard and
drunken appearance indicated that he was an old veteran living in the bars
off his pension. As he approached the kirtan
party, the temple's reserve kshatriyas,
Keshava Das and Guru-kripa Das, readied themselves for a fight. Sure
enough, the monster marched up to Jayananda, turned, and began to shout,
“Stop that chanting!” Jayananda looked him straight in the eye and
said firmly, “Just chant Hare Krishna! Just chant Hare Krishna!” To
everyone's amazement, the drunk simply turned and walked away without a
scrap. The
ultimate expression of Jayananda's fearlessness came at the end of his
life when he was diagnosed with leukemia and cancer of the lymph glands.
He wrote from the hospital, “I was
out of the hospital for a month going to the clinic, and now I am back for
a couple of weeks of intensive treatment. Actually, the whole thing was a
real blessing as it made me realize that death is right at hand. Somehow I
need these potent reminders to help me advance in Krishna consciousness.
For the time I was in the temple I was appreciating Krishna consciousness
so much more than ever before, so it's been a real blessing.” Even in
his last few months in L.A. temple, Jayananda never succumbed to fear or
self-pity. When his old friends would come to his room and see his
withered form and ghostly appearance, they would find it hard to talk
their way around his condition. What Jayananda communicated, on the other
hand, was complete disinterest in the whole subject of his health. Instead
he was scheming how to put on Ratha-yatra in Los Angeles. Sitting on
the lawn in his wheelchair, looking like death personified, Jayananda
could not stop thinking and talking about Ratha-yatra. Karandhara
remembers looking at him from his desk. Jayananda was there, the epitome
of Krishna consciousness and fearlessness of death. Karandhara thought it
odd that he didn't feel any great pity or remorse for Jayananda. Then he
could understand that if Jayananda was so Krishna conscious, how could
anyone look at him and not also be Krishna conscious? Jayananda
pushed on the Los Angeles Ratha-yatra until he was so weak that he could
no longer pick up the phone and call old friends to ask for donations.
Factually he collected a large amount of laxmi and devised the various means by which the festival could take
place. The festival managers will readily admit that, without Jayananda's
presence, the first Ratha-yatra festival in L.A. would not have taken
place in 1977. Thus he proved that by engaging in devotional service, one
transcends even the fear of death. Conclusion That
Jayananda passed away while Srila Prabhupada was still on the planet is
not insignificant. In this way, Srila Prabhupada was able to confirm to
all of us that “everyone should follow the example of Jayananda.”
Certainly those who knew Jayananda should take it upon themselves to
preach about his qualities of humility, eagerness to serve, equanimity,
and devotion to Krishna and Prabhupada. We offer our humble obeisances to
all such devotees who understand these qualities and try to share them. We
offer our humble obeisances unto His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada and to
Sri Srimad Jayananda Prabhu, the exemplary teacher of devotional service
in Krishna consciousness. * * * * *
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