Whether in sickness or health, parikrama with devotees' kirtan is the noblest way to spend one's final days.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhavānanda: Śrīla Prabhupāda? A nice vegetable broth Ātreya Ṛṣi prepared for you. [indistinct background comments] [break] Prabhupāda: [indistinct] Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You can what, Śrīla Prabhupāda? Prabhupāda: I can sit up. [break] [devotees chanting japa] Bhavānanda, you can take little oil and... Bhavānanda: Yes.
[devotees chant japa] [break] Śrīla Prabhupāda? Śatadhanya Mahārāja has come. Śatadhanya: I have brought the makara-dhvaja from the kavirāja in Delhi. This kavirāja, he's not Rāmānuja-sampradāya, but many people say in Delhi that he's the foremost kavirāja in India. He treats the Prime Minister, Morarji Desai, and all the ministers also. So many people trusted him, and he mixed this medicine...
He was mixing it for some other person, but when he heard that you were ill, he gave it to us. Bhavānanda: What kind of makara-dhvaja? Śatadhanya: There's different kinds of makara-dhvaja, six kinds. This is the most potent kind. This is called siddha makara-dhvaja. And this contains gold and pearl and musk and mica and many other ingredients.
Bhavānanda: And what are the other ingredients you have to take it with? Śatadhanya: You can take it with either honey or milk. But he recommended that for Prabhupāda's particular condition he take it with honey.
Prabhupāda: That's all right. What did he charge? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What did he charge? Śatadhanya: Nothing. We got it for free, because we got it through one influential man named Chanda Swami.
Prabhupāda: Oh. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh, Chanda Swami. That's that person Ādi-keśa was always working with. Śatadhanya: That's what the kavirāja said...
Prabhupāda: That means he's honest. That's all right. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You met Chanda Swami? Śatadhanya: No, he's in Madras. This is forty-eight doses, two doses a day.