SP's physical symtoms while departuring from Material World

When we arrived in those final hours on November 14th, he was not speaking. I felt at that time by seeing his face that he was fully remembering the pastimes of Krishna in Vrindavana. I think it was great mercy coming from Krishna because for his whole lifetime he had served Radha-Krishna. "For that special person, Krishna absorption is there. Entranced in this way, his eyes were closed and he was exhibiting special symptoms. It was a very touching (karuna) scene. He had no pain, no distraction. At that time, his mouth was so beautiful-like a blossomed rose, like a lotus." These are the signs of a very great personality. Someone else may cry, 'I am dying, I am dying!' and his face will be so ugly. But he was never like that. He was like a beautiful lotus flower, so I knew what he was doing. I have seen others also, including my gurudeva, Srila Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Goswami Maharaja, going to aprakata-lila (entering Krishna's eternal pastimes at the time of leaving the body). I have seen Ananga-mohana Brahmacari, Jagannatha Babaji Maharaja (the disciple of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada), Narasimha Maharaja and Padmanabha Maharaja. I have seen many devotees depart this world, so I could judge at that time how it was going on. They would say, 'Krishna Krishna Radhe Radhe.'

There are signs, particular signs, at that moment which show that someone is remembering Krishna, and Swami Maharaja was exhibiting all those signs. He was very beautiful, very high-class. There was no sign of pain and no attachment to the body or anything else. He was no longer anxious for his young disciples nor for any of the outward things he had established in his Krishna consciousness movement. Now there was nothing else; only remembering Krishna. Our brahmacaris were softly singing some bhajanas. At that time, I saw that he was fully satisfied, and thus I was also fully satisfied. I knew then that he would surely go soon, but there was no sign of exactly when; he could have left then, or sometime later.