21 September 1996
(by Nrsimghananda das)

Yesterday on the plane Guru Maharaja was siting next to a french man. The man was in his 60 th and he look open minded. Immediately when Guru Maharaja sat next to him he noticed that he was reading a french guide book. As Guru Maharaja knows french from his studies in France during the 60 th he started speaking to him in french. The man happily responded to him. I was sitting one seat in front, still Guru Maharaja told me to preach to him. When it was time for eating he received a non vegetarian dish, so Srila Bhagavatpada told him a vegetarian dish would be better. The man aknowledged, so Guru Maharaja told the air hostess to give him a vegetarian dish. This is the beauty of the pure devotee, he cares for all living entities, he cares undiscriminitly of who the person is. We were coming from Bhubanewar were we had stayed for 1 1/2 day. Before that we were in Bombay for a few days. And before that Guru Maharaja was in Calcutta for the Indian BBT meeting. We had some problems on COM so we had not downloaded for some time. I was happy to see that the conferences continued while I was in Chandigargh and not travelling with Guru Maharaja. It is nice everyone who has direct experience, even for 1 minute can share Guru Maharaja transcendental activities with everyone on the conference.

Yesterday Guru Maharaja developped some little fever. It was It was Radhastami day also. So at night we arived from Bhubaneswar at 10 pm and the next morning we left for Vrindavan at 8 pm. Guru Maharaja wanted to be on time for the abhishek. On festival days he generally, although going on with his work, becomes veey absorbed in the mood of the festival.He did some extra reading and chanting. This morning he called me after Manga arati, the fever had went down a little bit. Between now and the end of the month we will be around Delhi, visiting Chandigargh,Kuruksetra, champa and Delhi itself. Around the 4 th of October we will be leaving for Kenya. Nairobi Ratha Yatra is on the 5 th. We will be staying Kenya till the 11 th. Then a few days later we are supposed to leave for Mauritius.
Guru Maharaja is basically back on his old schedule with the difference of sleeping 6 hours a day,taking a small nap in the aftetrnon, doing some yoga exercices and doing his daily walk. His health is good and as usual he is going non stop in the performance of his duties. Today is Sept.21, Saturdady. On Monday we will be heading back to Delhi.
This year around 1000 people came to the Delhi Bhagavtapada Vyasa Puja. In Bombay althtough Guru Maharaja was not there they fed more the 2500 people.