Yei Kṛṣṇa - Sei Gaura - Sei Jagannātha

C hapter 8 p rabhupäda in b hubaneswar - p art 1

journalist, who was sixty-five years of age, was overcome with emotion; deeply moved, he said, “At last I have been able to get the darçana of the living Caitanya!” He explained that for forty long years he had a really deep and important spiritual question in his mind, and a powerful need to find the answer to it. He had sought out as many spiritual leaders as possible to that end and asked them his question. He had been to the Vatican a number of times to speak to the Pope; he had been to meet the spiritual head of the Kaaba in Mecca; he had been to the Aurovinda Society and to many other organisations, to Sai Baba, to Sri Chinmoy and all the so-called gurus. He had put forward his question to them all but none could give him an answer. Finally, he desired to ask his question to Çréla Prabhupäda, and that consideration had come to him without knowing of his greatness. Initially, for the first fifteen minutes, Çréla Prabhupäda talked about his experiences in the West. The journalist then began to think about directing his question to Çréla Prabhupäda. Having formulated the question in his mind and preparing to present it, at that moment Çréla Prabhupäda directed his disciple to bring Çré Caitanya-caritämåta and read from it. When he heard the verse and its purport about the Supreme Absolute Truth, he immediately understood the answer, an answer he had been seeking for forty years, from when he was twenty-five years of age until then, when he was sixty-five. His joy knew no bounds. He said, “The tissues of my body started dancing.” But as the Çré Caitanya-caritämåta excerpt was being read, a counter question developed in his mind at that point Çréla Prabhupäda called for the second reading, from the Bhagavadgétä, and answered that question too. Jitendra Singh was completely overwhelmed by the incredible extent of Çréla Prabhupäda’s understanding what was on his mind, and by his greatness, his inconceivable greatness.