When I got to Dayal's house last night, I was very nervous going into the house as I knew Maharaj was already there. Maharaj was talking to the devotees when I walked in but when he saw me he must have been talking about me to them and he said "this wonderful devotee that just walked in the door." Soon as he said that I was practically on the floor offering my obeisances to him. I messed up on the second half of the prayer though as I was so nervous. I gave Maharaj the flower garland from New Vrndavan. He wore it the whole time I was there. And after I offered my obeisances to him he had started talking about the Beatles. More and more i'm getting so attached to Maharaj. But anyways he was saying up in Toronto there was a Beatles convention and he was saying that we should find out what kind of Indian food that the Beatles liked. I told Maharaj that George loved pakoras but I'm not sure what kind. So I have to find out somehow and let Maharaj know. Maharaj wants to distribute prasadam at the beatles convention. And I tell you I want to go to it when he does do that. :D I'll find a way to go.
Maharaj's class was awesome too. I was all eyes and ears. When he read Prabhupada's purport in the Bhagavad Gita he did those funny gestures to where we had to repeat at his gestures he was making. It really made me giggle. I love how Maharaj makes his lectures humorous. Maharaj is just so easy to be with.He discussed on how we should all be like a brahman and how we should always be happy in Krishna Conciousness so that others may follow. He made some pretty good points.
After the lecture one of the other devotees asked me to serve Maharaj prasadam which I did. I found that Maharaj isn't much into rice so I know what to give him when he visits New Vrndavan. Before Maharaj was getting ready to go he wanted a little more to drink so I found him one quickly before he got ready to go. I was happy to do some service for him. I did get my picture taken with Maharaj too. During prasadam though I talked to Maharaj about initiation. We are both kind of stuck on what to do about it. We were looking at maybe New Year's Day for initation. My future Godbrother Rama das said he could drive me up to Toronto for it. Paurnamasi said she would go too. But Dayal isn't sure if he could go and I'm hoping he will because I don't know how well I can handle this without him. Maharaj was also convincing him to visit Toronto too when my initation is going to happen there. From what it sounded like also Maharaj is anxious to initate me I guess too. Because they were almost going to go through with initiating me last night but they were not sure if I was going to make it or not. Maharaj also asked me how I was doing in New Vrndavan and what i was going to be doing in the winter. I told him my trip to California was cancelled so that I could come up to Toronto.
It was so wonderful to see Maharaj. I cannot wait to see him again.
Dear Bhaktin Becky!
ReplyDeleteI am so happy to hear about your wonderful time with Maharaj! It is always so nice to be with him and learn all you can from him. I wil be coming to your initiation as well, so make sure you let me know as soon as YOU know, if it is in Toronto that is.
I am so very hapy with your progress. Isn't it such a good feeling to serve Maharaj directly?
Say, I started a Facebook page for al of us god-brothers and sisters. Did you get the invite?
Hari Bol!!
Ramachandra das