16 May 2005
(by Ishnai d.d.)

On the farm Guru Maharaja also gave a class on Srimad Bhagavatam. After the class he was associating with the devotees again. There were so many wishing devotees, that’s why Srila Bhagavatpada dedicated to them all his time left after classes and a short sleep.The evening class was held in the same hall rented on the first day of his visit. There was a small but cozy stage. The class was on Chandan-yatra, whose founder is Madhavendra Puri (the spiritual grandfather of Lord Caitanya). During the whole month, when it becomes hot, the Deities stand smeared in chandana (a cooling paste made of the sandal wood).

The class ended with an amazing kirtan. All the devotees chanted, danced and jumped in ecstasy. Guru Maharaja danced with the devotees, only on the stage. In some time he started distributing and sometimes throwing prasad with his charming smile and childish playfulness just from the stage. When the prasad was finished, the devotees brought the books. One had to see how Srila Bhagavatpada shone looking forward to distributing those books! There was a small Bhagavad-gita and some volumes of Srimad Bhagavatam.
Words fail to describe him giving those books to the people signing them with his radiant smile. It was obvious that Guru Maharaja enjoyed distributing books. The desire to get a book from the hands of a pure devotee started infecting even those who had them.
Guru Maharaja liked distributing books so much that he suggested doing that after every class in Bishkek and Tashkent.