Financial Assistance for Rajendranandana Prabhu

Hare Krsna,

Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabupada.

I am humbly asking to the Vaishnavas around the world for your assistance. Rajendranandana Prabhu has been my best friend for decades and when his dearest wife Catura notified me about his 4th stage cancer diagnosis recently, I thought of GoFundMe to raise laxmi for his funeral services and financial support for his family.

Rajendranandana Prabhu’s life has been devoted to serve Srila Prabhupada’s mission with enthusiasm and loving attitude. He joined ISKCON in 1973 in Dallas, Texas, and took formal initiation from Srila Prabhupada in 1974. He rendered service there as a Gurukula Teacher and took care of the children nicely and lovingly. Later on, he married Mother Catura in 1985 in San Francisco and their son Aja was born in 1989. He became temple president of San Diego and Hawaii. He traveled all over India and lived in Vrindavana. In 2003, he started visiting Mayapur for several months out of the year and his service was to preach in different departments with a very serious and strong devotional attitude. He is very well known in Mayapur Chandradoya Mandir as a faithful servant of Srila Prabhupada and kind to other Vaishnavas.

Once, Jananivas Prabhu, Head Pujari in Mayapur, described him as a “very soft heartened soul and a gem”. When Rajendranandana Prabhu heard H.H Jaya Pataka Maharaja saying that everyone should come to Parikrama every year, he took this to his heart and soul and never missed it. Maharaja described him as a devotee with “Deep, deep, deep spiritual realizations”.

Important to note that he never missed a day chanting the prescribed rounds in his initiated life as a Bhakta of Krsna. He took Vanaprastha and Mother Catura fully supported him in any way to make his preaching efforts a success. Both have lived a very simple life with austerities and never deviated from performing devotional services anywhere they have lived.

Raj, as we lovingly call him said, ”Whatever Krsna and Srila Prabhupada want for me, I think this a very ‘Loving ticket’ for me and I consider myself a lover of Srila Prabhupada”.

Dear Vaishnavas, your financial contribution will also enable Mother Catura and their son Aja to be able to stay on their feet during this hardship and very delicate transition.

Your ever Servant,

Bahushira Dasa, ACBSP