Topic: Srila Prabhupada
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Srila Prabhupada
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977) is the foremost proponent and teacher of Krishna consciousness—devotional service to the Supreme Person, Krishna—of the modern era. He is the founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).
Srila Prabhupada, as he's known to his followers, translated and commented on over eighty...
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Alone in an alien country, with no money or place of his own—but fifty centuries of spiritual tradition stood behind him.
The freezing wind blasting off the river becomes merciless when funneled between the walls of the city’s chartered canyons. The wind hurtles a birdshot of cinder and sleet; it sends trash skimming over the icy pavement and lifts it in sudden dizzying spirals high up the face...
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Reading Damodara Dasa’s memoir about Srila Prabhupada makes me wish I’d been there. But my time came later, in 1974. My head bowed to the floor in the San Francisco temple, I looked up briefly and saw, just inches away, Srila Prabhupada’s feet in rust-colored socks gliding by. He had come for the annual Rathayatra festival. The next day, dancing onstage, arms raised high, he inspired ten thousand...
