Remembering HG Pankajangri Prabhu - My First Meeting

Radhanath Swami

When I arrived in Mayapur, every evening, I was staying in the Lotus building Jananivas Prabhu would come and bring me Maha Prasad cookies and milk and we would sit and talk for about an hour, about Srila Prabhupad, about Mayapur Dham, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu pastimes with his devotees, it was just wonderful. And this was a highlight of the whole day for me. So one evening, he came. He gave me the cookies and the milk and we spoke about Lord Chaitanya and Lord Nityananda for probably an hour and a half, it was so wonderful. And at the end of the discussion, I said, “I'm just so grateful to be with you Jananivas Prabhu.” And he smiled and said, “I'm not Jananivas. I am Panjanjanghri, his brother.” That was our first meeting. We embraced. I was crying. I mean, I didn't even know that Jananivas Prabhu had a twin brother.