771113 - Conversation A - Vrndavana

Conversations by Date, 1977

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

771113R1-VRNDAVAN - November 13, 1977 - 24:09 Minutes

(kirtana in background)

Bhakti-caru: Śrīla Prabhupāda?

Prabhupāda: (Bengali) Bhogaiśvarya-prasaktānāṁ tayāpahṛta-cetasām, vyavasāyātmikā buddhiḥ . . . (BG 2.44).

Jayādvaita: Samādhau na vidhīyate.

Prabhupāda: (Bengali)

Bhakti-caru: (Bengali) (break)

Kavirāja: (Hindi)

Prabhupāda: (Hindi with kavirāja)

Bhakti-caru: All the time he's been taking off.

Bhavānanda: He won't let us put anything on.

Kavirāja: (Hindi with Bhakti-caru; mentions pulse)

Prabhupāda: (Hindi with kavirāja)

Bhakti-caru: How did he sleep last night?

Bhavānanda: He was just . . . From two to three he was sleeping very deeply.

Bhakti-caru: (Hindi explains to kavirāja)

(indistinct background comments by devotees)

Kavirāja: (Hindi)

Bhakti-caru: (Hindi; asks Prabhupāda something but gets no reply)

Bhavānanda: He was feeling very cold.

Kavirāja: (Hindi)

Upendra: Tell him we put this on a few minutes ago.

Kavirāja: (Hindi)

Bhakti-caru: Just to cover him.

Kavirāja: (Hindi with Bhakti-caru)

Prabhupāda: (Bengali)

Kavirāja: (Hindi)

Bhavānanda: At one-thirty, it said on the . . . (indistinct) . . . he was tossing and turning.

Prabhupāda: (Bengali)

Bhakti-caru: Ki, Śrīla Prabhupāda?

Prabhupāda: (Bengali)

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What did Prabhupāda say?

Bhakti-caru: He's feeling the pain only in his leg.

Kavirāja: (Hindi)

Bhakti-caru: (Hindi)

Bhavānanda: (indistinct whispering) It's fixed up, Śrīla Prabhupāda. (to kavirāja:) Passed 125cc's of urine that time. (long pause) (background whispering; mentions Bhagatjī)

(Hindi—kavirāja attends Prabhupāda; Bhavananda and Bhakti-caru answering questions)

Bhakti-caru: He said that in whole body, but there's less in the hands, more in the legs.

Bhagatjī(?): Left leg, huh?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Did Shastrijī get the medicine he was looking for in Jaipur?

Bhakti-caru: (translates question to kavirāja) Yes.

Kavirāja: (Hindi)

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He saw Pradyumna?

Bhakti-caru: Yes.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Any message for Prabhupāda?

Kavirāja: (Hindi)

Bhavānanda: Finished passing urine, Śrīla Prabhupāda?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: How is his pulse?

Kavirāja: One hundred still.

Bhakti-caru: (Bengali) Śrīla Prabhupāda?

Kavirāja: (Hindi)

Bhavānanda: Śrīla Prabhupāda? Have you finished passing urine?

Prabhupāda: Eh?

Bhavānanda: Passing urine is finished?

Prabhupāda: I never passed.

Bhavānanda: Do you have to now? No.

Bhakti-caru: (Hindi with kavirāja) (break)

Bhavānanda: Tell him Prabhupāda was saying he is heavy all over his body. Just before all this pain, he was feeling heavy.

Bhakti-caru: (Hindi)

Kavirāja: (Hindi)

Bhakti-caru: Which side? The left side of the body?

Bhavānanda: He said all over.

Prabhupāda: (Hindi, asks kavirāja something; kavirāja mentions blood circulation)

Bhavānanda: Also, before he complained of the heaviness, he was feeling very cold, yet so many blankets and quilts, and he threw them all off.

Prabhupāda: Blood pressure is . . . Blood pressure.

Bhakti-caru: (Hindi asks kavirāja about blood pressure)

Kavirāja: (Hindi with Bhakti-caru)

Bhagatjī(?): (Hindi with kavirāja)

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What did he say?

Bhakti-caru: He said that there are three things that cause disease: vāyu, pitta and kapha. And due to weakness, the . . .

Kavirāja: (Hindi about medicine)

Bhakti-caru: Medicines that have been given, they might have caused some cold in the body. Milk also is quite cooling. Milk also has that effect.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda? Are you feeling a little relief now? You should rest now. Try and take some rest now, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Bhavānanda: The swelling's gone down every day. It's not increasing ever. Have you noticed? Every day it goes down a little more and more.

Bhakti-caru: (Hindi with kavirāja) He said that's a very good sign.

Kavirāja: (Hindi)

Bhakti-caru: He said since last three, four days he's not given any medicine for the swelling. (end).