Death becomes glorious when one departs while chanting the holy name in complete surrender to Krishna's will.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: Now you can discuss. [Transl. Is everything okay?] [end]
Bhagatjī: [Transl. He was saying…the body of that girl named Manisa who had cancer…she came from America, she left her body yesterday, no the day before yesterday. Her funeral was performed the day before yesterday at the Yamuna.]
Prabhupāda: [Transl. Nobody can survive cancer.]
Bhagatjī: [Transl. Yes. She came from America.]
Prabhupāda: [Transl. I also had a disciple named Jayānanda who left his body today while chanting the holy name of Hari.]
Prabhupāda: [Transl. He had cancer. Very glorious death. He was the one who was arranging all the Ratha-yatras. Young man?] What was his age? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Jayānanda was about thirty-eight or forty.
Prabhupāda: [Transl. First he was driving taxi there. I first met him in San Francisco. So he used to drive me around and chant "Hare Kṛṣṇa," "Hare Kṛṣṇa" while driving. He was the first person to give me five thousand dollar. "Take this and print your books."] I was very anxious to print my books. So he is the first one to come forward, and give a five thousand dollar check. [Transl. He was very good. After that, he used to run the San Francisco center himself by driving taxi. Very talented. Any work you tell him, immediately "Yes Yes" and he will do it. He was such a hard worker. He was very stout, long and comes from a rich family. His father and mother also came.] Bhagatjī: [Transl. Prabhupāda, do you not feel any hungry now? Was there any benefit from going to Rishikesh?] Prabhupāda: nidrāhāra-vihārakādi-vijitau [Ṣaḍ-gosvāmī-aṣṭaka verse 6] [laughs]. [Transl. That's why I came back here so that eating, sleeping should be stopped. Now I have to die. So why not return to Vṛṇdāvana? I see blury in my eyes. Eyes?] Bhagatjī: [Transl. Yes, I understand.] Prabhupāda: [Transl. It must be because of weakness. Anyway I am back home. So in this condition, don't bother to call for doctors. Simply do kirtan. If I happen to become unconscious, or I am unable to speak, you just go on doing kirtan. Nothing else. Calling doctor, giving injection, uptodate treatment—don't do all this. I have already told this to them. What will the doctors do?] tvad-upekṣitānām, tāvad tanu-bhṛtāṁ tvad-upekṣitānām [SB 7.9.19] [Transl. Whatever the Supreme Personality of Godhead desires, that should happen.] bālasya neha śaraṇaṁ pitarau nṛsiṁha nārtasya cāgadam udanvati majjato nauḥ taptasya tat-pratividhir ya ihāñjaseṣṭas tāvad vibho tanu-bhṛtāṁ tvad-upekṣitānām [Transl. It is not that just by having parents the children are raised, just by having good medicines and doctors people survive. Similarly, all the remedies that are available in the world, the world is a place of struggle, one side struggle and another side its remedy. They go side by side. So, all the remedies will not be of any help even if you take full advantage of them. Whatever the Supreme Lord desires… One should depend on Him. The doctors simply make some experiments. They don't actually know anything. They invent newer and newer things.] What is this cloth is hanging? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It says, "Welcome, Śrīla Prabhupāda." Prabhupāda: Oh. Where is Gopāla Kṛṣṇa?