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Durlabha Dasa Babaji - Vaisnava's Biographies

The document describes an encounter Durlabha Dasa had while chanting under a tree, where a gray figure told him it was death coming to take him, but could not do so as long as he continued chanting; later Manohara Dasa explained Durlabha Dasa was meant to die at that moment but was given more life by the grace of chanting the holy name.

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Durlabha Dasa Babaji - Vaisnava's Biographies

The document describes an encounter Durlabha Dasa had while chanting under a tree, where a gray figure told him it was death coming to take him, but could not do so as long as he continued chanting; later Manohara Dasa explained Durlabha Dasa was meant to die at that moment but was given more life by the grace of chanting the holy name.

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Durlabha dasa babaji

Durlabha Dasa practiced his bhajana on the north bank of Govindakunda, at the time when
Manohara Dasa Pandit Babaji moved into a house at the kunda. During this period
Vrndavana was under the grip of an epidemic of plague. One day, while Durlabha Dasa was
chanting japa under a margosa tree in the hot midday sun, he suddenly saw a huge terrifying
grayish figure appear in front of him. In amazement he asked the being why he was there.
The figure said that he was the messenger of death and had been deputed to take Durlabha
Dasa along with him. Durlabha Dasa serenely replied, "I am ready, you are free to take me."
However, the strange being replied that he could not do so unless Durlabha Dasa stopped
chanting. The strange being disappeared when Durlabha Dasa refused to comply.

Later Durlabha Dasa explained what had happened to Manohara Dasa, hoping to understand
the significance of the incident. Manohara Dasa pointed out that Durlabha Dasa was
actually destined to die at the precise moment when the figure had appeared. However, by
the grace of the holy name, Durlabha Dasa had been endowed with a longer life span.

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