Impre ssions of B hakt i
went with my Gurujé to the Chinchura Gauòéya Maöha, where I continued listening to his hari-kathä and doing sevä. It was there that I met prapuja-caraëa Çréla Bhakti Pramoda Puré Mahäräja, and where Gurujé engaged me in personal service to him. I began rendering him so many services, such as cooking and giving him water for drinking and bathing. One of my daily services was to accompany him to the nearby Gaìgä where he would bathe, and I would bring my loöa, my last remaining possession from my previous äçrama. One day, while he and I were in the Gaìgä, the current took my loöa. As it floated away, I considered, “This is good. Now my last material attachment has gone.”
Anaṅga-Mohana Brahmacārī Falls Severely Ill with Tuberculosis In the following year, I again accompanied Gurujé to the Vaidyanätha-dhäma parikramä. Later, after the parikramä was completed, Gurujé continued to travel and preach. During that preaching tour, Anaìga-mohana brahmacäré, who was living and travelling with Gurujé and who would also sing kértana for him, fell severely ill with tuberculosis. I was appointed to serve him; at which time I would bring him medicines from a long distance and even clean his body after he passed stool. I took care of him in every respect. One day, as he sat right next to Gurujé, he began vomiting blood. I went with Gurujé to bring him to a famous homeopathic doctor in Calcutta, and on the doctor’s advice we stayed nearby a holy place famous for Lord Çiva’s Jyotir-liìga Temple in Deogarh (the abode of the gods), in Jharkand, Bihar at Siddhavadi. When that and other treatments did not work, Gurujé admitted him to a tuberculosis hospital.
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