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Under the circumstances since 1936 up to now, I was simply speculating whether I shall venture this difficult task and …

– Śrīla Prabhupāda, Back to Godhead magazine

THE “FIRE IN the maṭha” broke out almost immediately. A senior disciple said that there should be one ācārya who …

Two parties contested. Ananta Vāsudeva, one of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta’s leading preachers, was ambitious, and he pressed his claim with a …

Shortly after Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta’s passing away, litigation had begun. Ananta Vāsudeva, supported by a majority of the members of the …

Abhay’s inability to take part in the activities of the Gaudiya Math was suddenly in his favor. He had always …

But he wanted to preach. Although becoming “a very good English preacher” was something he was meditating on more than …

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1938 His Bombay business diminishing, Abhay, now forty-two, moved back to Calcutta with his wife and family and rented a …

Sometimes he would employ two or three servants to assist him, but mostly he worked alone. And he would deliver …

The new Calcutta business enjoyed an early success, but Abhay didn’t have his heart in it. It was a duty …

Chandi Mukerjee (a neighbor from nearby Bihari Street): He was interested only in devotional activities, and he did his business …

Charan Mukerjee (Abhay’s next-door neighbor): Abhay Charan De was always a very patient listener to every illogical argument that anybody, …

Neighbors would often see him sitting on his cot in the front room. He would read his spiritual master’s books …

The neighbors lived openly in a kind of joint neighborhood family, and Abhay talked freely with the other neighbors – …

In those days, for a person in Calcutta to be interested in God consciousness was not so unusual. Abhay found …

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Meanwhile, the war of the Gaudiya Math raged on. Both factions were ill-motivated, and both deviated from the instructions of …

Most of the sannyāsīs continued to maintain their principles, but many now left the jurisdiction of the two contending factions …