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Ratha-yātrā was held in cities all over India, but the original, gigantic Ratha-yātrā, attended each year by millions of pilgrims, …

Abhay wanted to have his own cart and to perform his own Ratha-yātrā, and naturally he turned to his father …

Abhay engaged his playmates in helping him, especially his sister Bhavatarini, and he became their natural leader. Responding to his …

Like the festival at Purī, Abhay’s Ratha-yātrā ran for eight consecutive days. His family members gathered, and the neighborhood children …

What are You doing, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī? Please come out and see. They are stealing Your dearmost treasure – Kṛṣṇa, the …

Abhay copied whatever he had seen at adult religious functions, including dressing the deities, offering the deities food, offering ārati …

“They are just children playing,” his father replied.

“Oh, children playing?” the men joked. “You are depriving us by saying that this is only for children?”

While Abhay was ecstatically absorbed in the Ratha-yātrā processions, Gour Mohan spent money for eight consecutive days, and Rajani cooked …

When Abhay was about six years old, he asked his father for a Deity of his own to worship. Since …

Abhay and his sister Bhavatarini became dedicated worshipers of the little Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Deities, spending much of their time dressing and …

Once a neighbor asked Abhay’s mother, “How old is your little son?”

“He’s seven,” she said, as Abhay listened with interest. He had never heard anyone discuss his age before; but now …

In addition to the education Abhay received at the kindergarten to which he had at first been forcibly dragged, he …

Mutty Lall was a boys’ school founded in 1842 by a wealthy suvarṇa-vaṇik Vaiṣṇava. The building was stone, two stories, …

Classes were disciplined and formal. Each long bench held four boys, who shared a common desk, with four inkwells. If …

In their daily walks to and from school, Abhay and his friends came to recognize, at least from their childish …

Abhay turned ten the same year the rails were laid for the electric tram on Harrison Road. He watched the …

Abhay liked to ride his bicycle down the busy Calcutta streets. Although when the soccer club had been formed at …

At age twelve, though it made no deep impression on him, Abhay was initiated by a professional guru. The guru …