Prayers requested -
Rajendranandana Prabhu (ACBSP) prepares to leave this world
As some of you may know, HG Rajendranandana Prabhu (ACBSP) has stage four cancer.
He is bedridden at home in the US with his wife Catura dd and his son Aja.
He had some lower back problem about two and a half months ago that led to the doctors finding cancer in his body. They do not know where or how it appeared.
Prabhu is not going to fight it and is just preparing to leave his body.
The Doctors have not given him much time, and he is gracefully embracing the situation.
He is grateful for getting the warning so that he can prepare for this final test.
His consciousness is crystal clear, and he continues to warmly smile as usual, although he has not got the energy to laugh out loud as we would often hear him while attending Srimad Bhagavatam class or any other time.
I have this picture in my mind of Pankajanghri Prabhu mildly smiling and asking him sarcastically: What are you laughing about???
Sad that we won’t see or hear this again.
Rajendranandana Prabhu joined ISKCON in Dallas under Radha Kalacandji’s lotus feet in 1973. He is one of the early gurukula teachers in ISKCON and served in Vrindavana and Dallas as such. He was present during Srila Prabhupada’s final pastimes on this Earth.
He is a wonderful Vaishnava who touched the hearts of thousands of devotees with his humility and heartfelt classes, particularly on Navadwip Mandala Parikrama.
Although not currently physically present in Mayapur, he is one of the senior-most members of the ISKCON Mayapur community, where he spent a few months a year for over two decades.
He has a long-standing deep friendship with Jananivas Prabhu and Pankanjangri Prabhu, who sometimes referred to him as the third brother.
Devotees from around the world are expressing their love for his always genuine kind and warm disposition.
HH BB Goswami wrote: “He has always been one of the sweetest, kind, sincere and “heart on the sleeve” persons I have ever met. We became friends in Vrindavan in “77 and he’s just always been wonderful.
Rajendranandana Prabhu is offering his prostrate humble obeisances at the feet of his friends, well-wishers, and all the Vaisnavas.
He also asks to not pray for his health, but for his ability to embrace the will of Srila Prabhupada and Krishna’s plan, and to blissfully remember Srila Prabhupada and Krishna while facing whatever circumstances that unfold.
Kindly keep him and his family in your prayers.
Thank you.
Your servant,
Rādhikā Nāgara Das