Room Conversation – November 12, 1977, Vṛndāvana

Kaviraja: Boliya. [Transl. Tell me.]

Prabhupada: Hmm.

Kaviraja: [Transl. Do you feel little strength?]

Prabhupada: [Transl. Yes.]

Bhakti-caru: He's asking whether Srila Prabhupada is feeling stronger. He said yes.

Kaviraja: [Transl. Today he has passed stool.]

Bhakti-caru: [Transl. Yes, passed. Just now we gave him milk.]

Kaviraja: [Transl. Let me examine Maharajaji little.]

Prabhupada: Hmm.

Kaviraja: [Transl. Alright.]

Bhakti-caru: [Transl. Alright?]

Kaviraja: [Transl. First thing is, now I am giving you 2/3 small packets of medicines. One packet at night… he speaks too much also no? So one packet is given for his heart. Now his pulse rate is ninety.]

Bhakti-caru: [Transl. Pulse is okay?]

Kaviraja: [Transl. It is normal.]

Bhakti-caru: He's saying that Prabhupada's pulse is ninety, which is normal, and he gave three other medicines for Prabhupada's heart.

Kaviraja: [Transl. Today there is no gap at all in his pulse beat. The gap we detected in between is not there now.]

Bhakti-caru: [Transl. When?]

Kaviraja: [Transl. Gradually it went away.]

Bhakti-caru: That missing beat that Prabhupada was having-that's no more there.

Prabhupada: Hmm? What is that?

Tamala Krsna: You were having a missing beat in your pulse.

Prabhupada: Huh?

Bhakti-caru: [Transl. Sometimes, Srila Prabhupada, the pulse was stopping…means.]

Kaviraja: [Transl. Gap, gap]

Bhakti-caru: [Transl. Gap was there.]

Kaviraja: [Transl. Not today though.]

Bhakti-caru: [Transl. That is not happening today. That's a very good sign.]

Prabhupada: [Transl. What did he say? I can't understand.]

Bhakti-caru: [Transl. Your heart beat, pulse rate, sometimes one to two beats, one beat was missing in between.]

Kaviraja: [Transl. After every six or seven beats there was a gap. When air is increased in the body the hearts beats like that. This condition you had yesterday also. After every ten or twelve beats there was a gap. But today there is nothing like that. Today it is regular. Only thing, is Maharaja kindly speak less at least for a few days. This is my request. You speak in your mind only. The longer you keep silence, this is all of your opinion that by keeping silence you will build up so much strength and energy. And by speaking one exhausts energy.]

Bhakti-caru: He is telling that he's requesting repeatedly that Prabhupada doesn't talk too much. He says that the energy that he's building, the moment he starts talking, that he loses that energy.

Tamala Krsna: Is that all right, Srila Prabhupada?

Prabhupada: No, how to say all right? [devotees chuckle]

Bhakti-caru: [Transl. How to say all right?]

Kaviraja: [Transl. Was he having flatulence in the stomach before also?]

Bhakti-caru: [Transl. Sometimes it happened. Whenever he drinks milk or fruit juice it happens like that.]

Kaviraja: [Transl. I see]

Tamala Krsna: Trying to stop Srila Prabhupada from speaking is like trying to stop the Gaṅga.

Kaviraja: [Transl. Swamiji, Let me tell you something. I have seen lakhs of patients. But your machine is a very special machine. Do you understand what I mean to say? In one minute many things happen, and in the next minute it seems nothing was there. It is totally correct. Means, this cannot happen to ordinary human being. That is a fact. Just like day before yesterday morning you had weakness and felt little pain, usually it takes six hours to subside pain, but in one minute, within five minutes it was under control. How to understand this? What kind of pastime is that? Now that period of yours has passed. You used to tell me something about your chart, no? From yesterday I am confident that you will certainly get well. There is no doubt about it. This final act will surely be conducted by the Supreme Lord. Of this there is no doubt. There is no second person to do it. Just like you took milk yesterday, if you will continue to take milk or fruit juice like that you will gain strength within a week.]

Bhakti-caru: [Transl. Let me explain to them in English what you have just said.] Shastriji's saying that he's seen lakhs of patients, but he hasn't seen a body like Srila Prabhupada's. Like in one moment it is very critical, and the next moment it's in perfect order. And he is now absolutely confident that Prabhupada is going to get well.

Jagadisa: He is or isn't?

Tamala Krsna: He is. We also are.

Bhakti-caru: And he's just requesting Srila Prabhupada that he keeps on taking the milk and the fruit juice and the medicine.

Tamala Krsna: Is that all right, Srila Prabhupada? [end]