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By the grace of Lord Krishna, the Americans are prosperous in every respect. They are not poverty stricken like the …

– from a letter to Sumati Morarji

THE BUS CAME swinging out of the terminal into the daylight of mid-town Manhattan, riding along in the shadows of …

Śrīla Prabhupāda had never before witnessed anything of such magnitude. He was now seeing for himself that American culture was …

Of course, he had many times traveled the road from Delhi to Vṛndāvana, but it did not have many advertisements. …

Prabhupāda felt compassion. The compassion of a Kṛṣṇa conscious saint had been explained in an age long ago by Prahlāda …

The scenery gradually changed to the Pennsylvania countryside, and the bus sped through long tunnels in the mountains. Night came. …

When the bus finally pulled into the terminal, it was past midnight. Gopal Agarwal was waiting with the family Volkswagen …

This was not any of Gopal’s doing. His father, a Mathurā businessman with a fondness for sādhus and religious causes, …

The unsuspecting Agarwals were “simple American people,” according to Sally Agarwal, who had met her Indian husband while he was …

September 20 “BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA, HOME OF THE JEEP” read a granite plaque in the city park. Butler, famous as the …

As the VW bus pulled into town, the predawn air was warm and humid. The morning edition of the Butler …

Śrīla Prabhupāda arrived at the Agarwals’ home – Sterling Apartments – at 4:00 A.M., and Gopal invited him to sleep …

Śrīla Prabhupāda was immediately a curiosity for whoever saw him. In anxiety, Mrs. Agarwal decided that instead of having people …

Sally hurried off to a Pittsburgh newspaper office, but the interviewer wasn’t able to comprehend why this person should make …

September 22 A feature article appeared in the Butler Eagle: “In Fluent English, Devotee of Hindu Cult Explains Commission to …

The article began:

A slight brown man in faded orange drapes and wearing white bathing shoes stepped out of a compact car yesterday …

The article referred to Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as “Biblical literature” and to Śrīla Prabhupāda as “the learned teacher.” It continued:

“My mission is to revive a people’s God consciousness,” says the Swamiji. “God is the Father of all living beings, …