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Question: Why did Guru Maharaj (Bhakti Caru Swami) have to leave his body in America? Devotees would love to leave either in Vrndavana or sacred, holy place.

Guru Maharaj: If you wouldn’t have left, maybe he wouldn’t have left his body. It is difficult to say what the plan of Krsna is. But somehow, he was distributing prasadam to the doctors and nurses of that hospital, before he was sick. And they have great respect for...

Question: My mother in law left her body on the day of Rādhāṣṭamī. What can we do for her, and in this situation what can we do and what can we not?

Guru Maharaj: After one year, you can go to Gāya and do a special pūjā at Visnupad. At this time, you can offer her some Kṛiṣhṇa prasādam. Or do some Tulasī worship and offer the result to her. I don’t know if she was a devotee. How she left her body? But the son is...
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