Brahmananda Prabhu ki jaya!
Deena Bandhu Das: One of the great pillars of Srila Prabhupada’s ISKCON, Sriman Brahmananda Prabhu, left this world one year ago on June 7 that corresponds in the Vaisnava calendar to the 6th (sasti) day of the dark half of the month of Vamana. This year that tithi comes today on the 26th of June. I was extremely fortunate and honored last year to light his funeral pyre at the Yamuna, since his younger brother Gargamuni was too devastated to do it.
We can’t begin to do justice to his glories. He was one of Srila Prabhupada’s first disciples. He was the first temple president in ISKCON. By his devotion to Srila Prabhupada’s order, he was the first to go to such places as Turkey, Pakistan, and Africa, some of these places being quite dangerous!
Brahmananda Prabhu, carefully following Srila Prabhupada’s order, was the one who was able to get His Divine Grace’s Bhagavad-Gita As It Is published by the very famous Macmillan Company. And that was after so many other companies had rejected Brahmananda’s plea for them to print it.
We could go on forever, but suffice it to say, Brahmananda Prabhu was the genuine Prabhupada Man, a great luminary in the sky of ISKCON, an enormous storehouse of nectarean Prabhupada Katha, and an ocean of love for Srila Prabhupada!