Maintaining hope while accepting medical guidance, disciples serve their guru with both practical care and unwavering spiritual faith.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Kavirāja assistant: [Hindi] Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda. Śrīla Prabhupāda? Śatadhanya Mahārāja and Bhakti-caru went to Mathurā and they called Calcutta. They spoke with Adri-dhāraṇa? So he's going to bring the kavirāja here. Prabhupāda: Kavirāja has no telephone. Bhakti-cāru: Yes, Śrīla Prabhupāda, he has one telephone. He has telephone at home and in his chamber also.
But when we rang up, he was not at home. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Therefore we thought it best not to lose any more time but to call Adri-dhāraṇa, because he's proved to be very capable person—and he was living with the kavirāja when he was here—and we want Adri-dhāraṇa to bring the kavirāja personally anyway. We also, Girirāja and myself, were just with the registrar, and we made the correction on the name without any difficulty, so now it's correctly given as "Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust." I wanted that because whenever we gave money from the Trust, I wanted to make a plaque with your name on it, Śrīla Prabhupāda. I thought that would be a nice thing to do. This way, now your name will be properly given.
So Śrīla Prabhupāda? So the kavirāja will be coming quite soon, and I was thinking that you've been a very good patient, taking all of the medicines which he prescribed. So we should not discontinue it until he comes, because that way we can say to him that you have taken everything exactly as he recommended. That way, he'll know certainly how much his medicine has been effective.
If we stop the medicine, then he won't be able to tell exactly. And as he'll be here quite soon, I think that we should just finish taking the medicine until he comes. Prabhupāda: Yes. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Another thing that we were thinking, Śrīla Prabhupāda, that we could see that you don't have much strength for sitting up very much at all. So what we were wondering was that just for the few times that you have to drink, whether we could sit you up for a minute. Not for longer than a minute.
Not that you would have to have pillows behind you or anything. Bhavānanda Mahārāja and myself can help you to sit up. And just for a minute, while you drink, you could sit up and then lay down again, just until the kavirāja comes. Our only feeling is that let us just try this medicine till the end.
Let us see if it works. Let the kavirāja come, and then he will, you know, give us some guidance from there. To sit up for any length of time is not possible. We could see that this morning.
But if you try, we can help you to sit up. Bhavānanda and myself will both be behind you, and just while you drink, and then lay down immediately. So that will give you a little strength, drinking something. Prabhupāda: I am, lying down like this, comfortable. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. So we will keep you laying like this all the time.