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HG Kunti Devi Dasi, a disciple of Srila Prabhupada and known Iskcon pioneer left this world.
\nKarnamrita Dasi (her daughter, shown in the little square photo with her mother): She left at 9:40am, she had said the evening before, just as we were ready to go to sleep, \u201cThe train is coming, I\u2019m getting on\u201d I thought there were no meanings to her words. And then the next morning my sweet friend Molly Ananga Manjari Martin who was helping with my mother\u2019s needs, let me know that her loud death rattle had stopped and to come immediately. I\u2019ll never forget how that death rattle sounded\u2026it\u2019s not something you want to hear your loved ones struggle through.
\nAnd there she was, I had only left briefly, but everything had slowed down, her breath, her sound, and her lips were spreading now into a smile. That moment of transition is a very big blessing to witness. It\u2019s not easy, but it\u2019s transformational to those conscious to realize the moment; there is a deep release of this body and into another spirit realm. My mothers only wish was to return to her Guru\u2019s side and service. She said very openly, \u201cI don\u2019t know Krsna, I don\u2019t know Radha, I\u2019ve never seen them or heard them\u2026..but I know Srila Prabhupada. I saw him, I heard him, I watched his life and examples. I want to go start this movement again, in the next Lila, by his side only.\u201d I cried at her dedication. May I have it one day\u2026.they called my mother the \u201cfoot soldier\u201d\u2026she was the one who came earliest and stayed the latest. She was beautiful, loyal, and a dedicated bhakti yoga practitioner. I still miss her influence on my devotion, and her HUGS!!!!
\nOn this blessed day, all those years ago, it was also the day of New York\u2019s Ratha-Yatra (Festival of the Chariots). I have always wished I could put her photo on the cart, and offer my singing there\u2026she dedicated her whole life to this community. But she never needed to be recognized, it\u2019s MY desire to see more of her sisters recognized in this society of ISKCON, it is not theirs. These original pioneer women of the Krsna society are nothing short of the finest examples of patience, humility and dedication.
\nMy mother admired when things were made by hand, the gardens, the milk sweets, the sweaters she knitted every year. When she was dying, it was of bone cancer, not an easy one to deal with as far as pain. She used to want to get outside in the garden, so we took her bed that had wheels, and wheeled her out through the vegetable rows of the community garden. She knew every herb, vegetable, plant and flower. When we were in that garden, she used to call her bed \u2018my wheelbarrow\u2019. So when she passed away, we took her out on that wheelbarrow, and we decorated it with all the lettuce and flowers and vegetables that were growing in the garden. It was how she liked to be close to the earth and with Krsna\u2019s beauty. She would have liked to live in the garden\u2026heaven knows when I was born, till I was 4 years old, we lived in the barn with the cows!
\nI think it\u2019s important to remember the foot soldiers. They are the ones with gold colored spirits, and along with my mother and her sisters, there are many I would love to honor Sumati Dasi Barbara Veda Wolff Nirmala Devi Gopalasyapriya Dian Alpert White Bhaja Govinda Harinama Chintamani Compassionate Rose.
\nTo all those who served with my mother, Thank you! She had an exceptional life and was LOVED by so many.
\n Her memorial service went on for days because everyone\u2019s dedication to her, (even her doctor from the local hospital) was filled with emotions and true impact. The saints walk amongst us, without need of recognition\u2026<\/p>\n