Letter to: Jayananda Thakura

In the Rajapur temple in Mayapur, the B.L.I.S.S devotees ran into the samadhi of the great saint Jayananda Thakura. He is the only disciple of Prabhupada, who Prabhupada has described to have gone back home. The following is a letter from Srila Prabhupada to Jayananda Thakura, after his departure.

His Grace Purujit Prabhu at the puspa-samadhi of Jayananda Thakura

77-05-05

My Dear Jayananda,

Please accept my blessings.

I am feeling very intensely your separation. In 1967 you joined me in San Francisco. You were driving my car and chanting Hare Krsna. You were the first man to give me some contribution ($5000) for printing my Bhagavad-gita. After that, you have rendered very favorable service to Krsna in different ways. I so hope at the time of your death you were remembering Krsna and as such, you have been promoted to the eternal association of Krsna. If not, if you had any tinge of material desire, you have gone to the celestial kingdom to live with the demigods for many thousands of years and enjoy the most opulent life of material existence. From there you can promote yourself to the spiritual world. But even if one fails to promote himself to the spiritual world, at that time he comes down again on the surface of this globe and takes birth in a big family like a yogis' or a brahmanas' or an aristocratic family, where there is again chance of reviving Krsna Consciousness. But as you were hearing Krsna-kirtana, I am sure that you were directly promoted to Krsna-loka.

janma karma ca me divyam

evam yo vetti tattvatah

tyaktva deham punar janma

naiti man eti so' rjuna

[Bg. 4.9]

Krsna has done a great favor to you, not to continue your diseased body, and has given you a suitable place for your service. Thank you very much.

Your ever well-wisher,

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami