Visiting Man Sarovara with Aindra Prabhu

[Paramananda das]

Visiting Man Sarovar with Aindra Prabhu

I recall one day I asked Aindra Prabhu if he like to go with me to Man Sarovar and take bath and darshan and chant Japa on the long way.He said lets go tomorrow one more devotee went with us and we started after the morning program and after we had both done our Govardhana and Salagrama pujas ,Normally Aindra Prabhu would do his puja late in the evening but this is one of the days he did it early .So we walked and chanted it is a long walk from Krsna Balarama mandir and you have to cross Yamuna and then walk another 7 km or or so .We saw the Nili Giri blue cows that is in that area and we chanted and focused on chanting Mahamantra.We took bath in Mansarova , Yamunaji we sprinkled on our heads of course. Man Sarovara is where Radha cried a lake of tears in anger Man with Sri Krsna .Because Krsna one day went to meet Chandravali ,Sri Radha refused to meet Sri Krsna and He had to bow at Her lotusfeet at this place, This is explained also in Gita Govinda by Srila Jayadeva Goswami .We walked bag I had brought to Maha prasadam from Krsna Balarama for us. We honored that and on the way back we met this famous Babaji that was said to be 500 years old living on the bank of Yamuna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devraha_Baba he was very famous I found out later ,So the Indian devotee with us told us about him , so we went cloth as we where going to cross Yamuna there anyway .When Devraha Baba saw us he shouted soomething in Hindi : We asked that devotee with us, He is saying I am blessing you to constantly chant Hare Krsna .

We where very thankful for that blessing of Devraha Baba, I believe it was in 1988 ,I just recalled this today by the mercy of Sri Radha and want to share this pastime with Aindra Prabhu and Devraha Baba.We chanted over 120 rounds of Japa that day so it was a very auspicious day in all respects