Sripad Aindra Prabhu's Living Will

The gurukula-building at ISKCON Vrindavan is currently getting pulled down. Within this building, Aindra Prabhu’s samadhi and his Deities are located.
It has come to our attention that there have been recent meetings between the management and some followers of Aindra Prabhu. In these meetings, it has been decided that Aindra Prabhu’s samadhi would get relocated to the ISKCON Goshala, whereas his Deities would get moved to the current guesthouse.
A couple of months before Aindra Prabhu passed away, he expressed his living will in a conversation which got recorded. This recording was already instrumental in the final rites of Aindra Prabhu.It was Aindra Prabhu’s expressed desire that he never wanted to get separated from his Deities/salagramas, and neither did he want his samadhi to be at the ISKCON Goshala.
Having happened to raise some of the questions, and having happened to make this recording, I can't help but feel responsible for the further development of this matter. I see myself only as an insignificant instrument in all this.
How can we keep Aindra Prabhu’s living will intact?
Are we actually doing sufficiently to respect Aindra Prabhu’s will?
Transcription (17th Feb 2010)
Sandesh: “What shall we do - I mean, like - after you’ll leave?
Aindra Prabhu: “After I’ll leave?”
Bh. Charles: “What, what?”
Sandesh: “What shall we do with your - body?”
Bh. Charles: “Ooh!”
Ati Sundari: “Ohj - Hare Krishna!”
Bh. Charles: “He already spoke about that.”
Aindra Prabhu: “Well…”
Ati Sundari: “Yeah, every year…”
Sandesh: “We have it recorded this time.”
Aindra Prabhu: “Well, I should write, I should probably write a living will. But I think that my body should be burned. But it’s not my business. But what I would - if I had my…, if I had my preference, I would, I would like my body to be burned with as much tulsi in the fire as possible, and then the ashes, along with the tulsi-ashes, they should be put in a…”
Bh. Charles: “Pot?”
Aindra Prabhu: “…in a pot, (…) and put in a samadhi, and all my Deities, more than 2,000 salagramas (…), and all my Deities, my original Nitai-Sacisuta, and Prabhupada and Bhaktisiddhanta, and my two Giriraja-asanas, and my big Gaura-Nitai, They should stay there with me in my samadhi. And someone should - I don’t know who - should take care of Them.”
Giridhari: “Yeah, I should to be buried with you like the Egyptians used to do.”
Bh. Charles: “Is there someone who would like to take care of salagrama?!”
Ati Sundari: “And then if they bury you, who will do the puja for everybody?”
Aindra Prabhu: “I don’t - I don’t all want my Deities just to become scattered all over the world.”
Sandesh: “Hm, all together.”
Aindra Prabhu: “Like, you know: Those are MY Deities. And I want them… (…) And I want them to continue to be my Deities.”
Sandesh: “And where should the samadhi be located?”
Aindra Prabhu: “That - who knows.”
Bh. Charles: “Where the Deity will be.”
Aindra Prabhu: “They’ll probably break down this building sooner or later. (…) So, we won’t be able to make a, you know, a “Aindra’s bhajana-kutir”. (...) I don’t know. If Krishna arranges it within the next twenty years or so, whenever, however long I have to live. According to, you know, my palm and according to, you know, astrology and stuff, I am supposed to live till I am eighty-two. But some person who is supposed to be having mystic powers, you know, told me that I would only be living till I am around seventy-eight, that I wouldn’t be living till I am eighty-two.”
Sandesh: “And how old is your body now?”
Aindra Prabhu: “It’s fifty-seven this coming - birthday.”
Aindra Prabhu: “So that means - what is it? Fifty-seven plus…”
Sandesh: “Twenty years.”
Ati Sundari: “Fifteen.”
Sandesh: “Sorry.”
Bh. Charles: “Twenty-one.”
Aindra Prabhu: “Fifty-seven and twenty years is seventy-seven. Twenty-one. (…) Only twenty-one years - maximum! So, let’s see - I don’t know. You know, the problem is because the prices are going up so much, up and up and up. But maybe the whole world situation will change, you know, and the economy will collapse and then, I’ll be able to get something for cheap.” “I would like something that’s close to the temple. I am not so much into the idea of just being, of being stuck over in the Goshala, you know, put out to pasture (great laughter).
Giridhari: “Like a little cow!”
Aindra Prabhu: “Whoop, whoop! Put out to pasture!” (Aindra Prabhu is imitating the sound of a grass-munching cow)
Giridhari: “You know, whoop, whoop!”(Laughing)
Aindra Prabhu: “Hare Krishna!”
Giridhari: “Anyway, if they’re going to put your samadhi there, there won’t be a salagrama-temple there anyway. It’s not a suitable place for a salagrama-temple there.”
Aindra Prabhu: “No, I…”
Ati Sundari: “Where?”
Giridhari: “In Goshala.”
Aindra Prabhu: “No, I would wonna have some kind of a, you know…but I don’t know, I can’t be in control of what happens after it. You know…”
Giridhari: “But you can have a (…) desire.”
Sandesh: “Yeah, you can express!” (…)

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Thankyou so much for sharing 🙏

[@raakuu]

This world is not a fit for any gentleman to live..
Truth

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conclusion is - no one knows when his time to go .... Thank you Aindra for everything ...

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This was 5 months before his departure. A conversation with Bhakta Charles , Giridhari das, Ati sundari dasi and bhaktin Sabina who asked the question and recorded it.