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Completed in Bhubaneswar

In discussion with his disciples many years later, Çréla Gour Govinda Swami said this about Çréla Prabhupäda in Bhubaneswar:

Devotee: When Çréla Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Öhäkura Prabhupäda was talking with [Çréla A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami] Prabhupäda, just some time before he left, he said there would be fire in the maöha, meaning some trouble would come. Before [Çréla A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami] Prabhupäda left, did he tell you that ISKCON would go through any disturbance like that? Did [Çréla A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami] Prabhupäda tell you anything before he left? How ISKCON would progress? Çréla Gour Govinda Swami: No, he did not say anything about that. He said other things that I cannot tell you, as they are very, very confidential. I expressed what could be expressed of what he told me. He said many things pointing out the Western devotees. He also told me not to tell them.

Devotee: To be tolerant. How can we be tolerant? Çréla Gour Govinda Swami: Mahäprabhu said, “tåëäd api sunécena”, “Be as tolerant as a tree.” Mahäprabhu set an example. Äcäryas have set an example and so they are teaching. How tolerant they are, and how humble they are! They are setting an example and teaching and then you pick up how they are doing it. It should be done like that, otherwise you cannot do hari-bhajana.

Devotee: [Çréla A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami] Prabhupäda started translating the Tenth Canto… Çréla Gour Govinda Swami: He completed the Ninth Canto. At the end of the Ninth Canto he noted; “Completed in Bhubaneswar,” and started the Tenth Canto.

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Devotee: Could you hear him translating into the dictaphone here? Çréla Gour Govinda Swami: Yes, he went to bed very early and then he would get up very early. When all were sleeping, he was translating. He only said, to bring the electricity. He needed it for his dictaphone. I had already applied for it and then it came before his arrival.

January 27 – January 30

“On 28 January at 2.50 a.m. Prabhupäda completed the Ninth Canto of the Çrémad-Bhägavatam and began the chapter summary of the ninety chapters of the Tenth Canto. Pradyumna was so excited he stayed up and recorded the time and listened on the other side of the partition wall as Prabhupäda translated.* Prabhupäda had a visit from Nityananda Kanungo, a former governor of Bihar. He gave us this land here and is still a very influential man. Prabhupäda received him very warmly and he has agreed to come for the foundation-stone laying ceremony on the appearance day of Lord Nityananda on February 2nd.” (Hari-çauri däsa notes) 2

While Çréla Prabhupäda was in Bhubaneswar in January 1977, two old acquaintances of Çré Çrémad Gour Govinda Swami (who knew him as Brajabandhu Manik, the school teacher) had met up with each other in a place called Naulo. They were Subhash Biswal** and Sukadeva Mallik.*** Sukadeva

* Author’s note: Also, awake listening to this momentous work was Çréla Gour Govinda Swami. ** Author’s note: Subhash Biswal was later initiated by Çréla Gour Govinda Swami and given the name Svayambhü däsa. Svayambhü däsa was a great paëòita. *** Author’s note: Sukadeva Mallik was later initiated by Çréla Gour Govinda Swami and given the name Çré Garbha däsa. Çré Garbha däsa arranged for the pädayäträ in Orissa.