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Sunday, January 29, 1967 marked the major spiritual event of the San Francisco hippie era, and Śrīla Prabhupāda, who was …

Thousands of hippies, anticipating an exciting evening, packed the hall. LSD pioneer Timothy Leary dutifully paid the standard $2.50 admission …

At about 10:00 PM, Śrīla Prabhupāda and a small entourage of devotees arrived amid uproarious applause and cheering by a …

The chanting started slowly but rhythmically, and little by little it spread throughout the ballroom, enveloping everyone. Hippies got to …

Ginsberg later recalled, “We sang Hare Kṛṣṇa all evening. It was absolutely great – an open thing. It was the …

As the tempo speeded up, the chanting and dancing became more and more intense, spurred on by a stageful of …

Within a few months of the Mantra-Rock event, devotees in San Francisco, New York, and Montreal began to take to …

On May 31, 1969, when the Vietnam War protest movement was reaching its climax, six devotees joined John Lennon and …

At the now historic mass antiwar demonstration in Washington, DC, on November 15, 1969, devotees from all over the United …

By 1970, when George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” – with its beautiful recurring lyrics of Hare Kṛṣṇa and Hare Rāma …

When His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda first arrived in America in the midst of the cultural turmoil …

In 1969 he journeyed to London, and by 1971, Hare Kṛṣṇa had been recorded on hit records by former Beatles …

The arduous sea voyage from Calcutta to Boston was finally over. The lone passenger aboard the cargo ship Jaladuta, a …

For thousands of years kṛṣṇa-bhakti, love of Kṛṣṇa, had been known only in India, but now, on the order of …

On his arrival day onboard the Jaladuta, he wrote in his diary the following words:

Absorbed in material life, they [Americans] think themselves very happy and satisfied, and therefore they have no taste for the …

In 1922, Śrīla Prabhupāda’s spiritual master, His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, had requested him to spread the teachings of …

After landing in America with the Indian rupee equivalent of eight dollars, he spent his first seven months in the …

By the summer of 1966, he had found a larger location more suited to propagating the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra and …

Here, a small group of young Bohemian types would join Śrīla Prabhupāda every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening for chanting …