Srila Prabhupada: Chartering a New Society
1966: The Lower East Side, New York. The building was humble, the membership small, yet Srila Prabhupada's vision encompassed the whole world.…
Srila Prabhupada — Taking on All Comers
Prabhupada retired through the rear door, back up to his apartment, his guests would disappear through the front door, back into the city. Don and Raphael would turn out the…
Srila Prabhupada’s Encounters at 26 Second Avenue
His lecture is very basic and yet (for restless youth) heavily philosophical. Some can't take it, and they rise to leave. Some, upon hearing his first words, have already risen…
Srila Prabhupada Moves to Second Avenue, NYC
In the early summer of 1966, Srila Prabhupada was sharing a Bowery loft with a young American friend. But when the boy went crazy on drugs and drove him out,…
Srila Prabhupada On the Lower East Side
Thousands of young people were walking the streets, not simply intoxicated or crazy (though they often were), but searching for life's ultimate answers.…
“Just HEAR Me” — Srila Prabhupada
So the first thing is that one should be searching after a spiritual master, just as when you search after some school, you must have at least some preliminary knowledge…
Srila Prabhupada’s Bowery Lectures
The dingy loft, its rafters unpainted, was more like an old warehouse than a temple. The members of his audience, most of them musicians, had come to meditate on…
No help for Srila Prabhupada from India
"His American church"—yes, Srila Prabhupada had hope and determination. There was life in his lectures and kirtanas (chantings), his morning and evening gatherings in the loft. At least he was…
On the Bowery — The Biography of a Pure Devotee
Most of the Bowery's 7,600 homeless men slept in lodging houses that required them to vacate the rooms during the day. Having nowhere else to go and nothing else to…
New York City, January- February 1966 – “It Will Not Be Possible to Assist You”
I am trying to open a temple here because Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura wanted it. I think that after the temple has started, some men, even from America, may be…
My Impressions of Srila Prabhupada — Dr. J. Stillson Judah
I'd been attending kirtanas regularly for quite some time, and when Prabhupada came there for a visit I was, of course, quite anxious to meet him. There were various theological…
We Love Prabhupada Because He Has Seen the Truth
For the disciple the advent of the spiritual master is the most blessed event in the world. It is even more important than Krsna's advent, because the spiritual master gives…
Prabhupada in New York City — Enlightenment on Skid Row
Almost all of Prabhupada's Bowery friends were musicians or friends of musicians. They were into music—music, drugs, women, and spiritual meditation. …
Butler, Pennsylvania: The First Testing Ground
When Srila Prabhupadas bus arrived at the terminal, it was past midnight. Mr. Gopal Agarwal, his sponsor, was waiting with the familys Volkswagen bus to drive him to Butler, about…
Srila Prabhupada’s New Group of Followers
Robert Nelson and Srila Prabhupada made an odd combination. Srila Prabhupada was elderly and dignified and was a deep scholar of the Bhagavatam and the Sanskrit language, whereas Robert was…
Remembering Srila Prabhupada
"Better to have warm legs and a cool head," he went on, "You must have a cool head to understand this Krsna consciousness philosophy."…
Srila Prabhupada New York City, Winter 1966 – “I am Trying to Open a Temple”
Prabhupada was convinced if he could start a place where people could come and associate with a pure devotee, the genuine God conscious culture of India could begin in America.…
Remembering Srila Prabhupada
Some personal recollections by his disciples. I remember being with Srila Prabhupada once when a cynical reporter interviewed him. The man challenged, “You claim God is speaking to you directly,…
Srila Prabhupada in New York City, 1965 – Struggling Alone
In New York, Srila Prabhupada had nowhere to stay but the asrama of an impersonalist svami. To see students listening to a speaker who denied the Personality of Godhead was…
Preaching in Madras: Remembering Srila Prabhupada
In December of 1971, I arranged speaking program for Srila Prabhupada in Madras, India. Thousands of people came to hear him, and the leading newspaper carried a summary of his…
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