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Here I am now sitting in New York, the world’s greatest city, such a magnificent city, but my heart is …

– from a lecture by Śrīla Prabhupāda

ROOM 307 WAS never meant for use as a residence or āśrama or lecture hall. It was only a small, …

When he had lived in room 501 at Dr. Mishra’s yoga-āśrama, Dr. Mishra had financed his needs. But now Prabhupāda …

He had come to America to speak about Kṛṣṇa, and even from the beginning he had found the opportunity to …

Moving out of the yoga studio into the small office downstairs gave Prabhupāda what he was looking for – his …

One of Dr. Mishra’s students had donated a reel-to-reel tape recorder, and Prabhupāda recorded some of his solitary bhajanas, which …

His first audiences consisted mainly of people who had heard about him or met him at Dr. Mishra’s yoga studio. …

March 18 He expressed his optimism in a letter to Sumati Morarji:

I was very much encouraged when you wrote to say, “I feel that you should stay there until you fully …

You will be pleased to know that I have improved my health back to normal, and my missionary work is …

Since I came to New York from Butler, Pennsylvania, I have rented the above room at seventy dollars per month, …

Outside the closed windows of room 307, the late winter night has fallen. Prabhupāda’s words are punctuated with the muted …

Now Arjuna is perplexed. He is perplexed about whether to fight or not to fight. After seeing in front of …

Now here is a point: Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. …

Prabhupāda’s voice is earnest, persuading. Sometimes his speech becomes high-pitched and breaks with urgency. His cultured British diction bears a …

Suddenly he pauses in his lecture and addresses someone in the room.

Prabhupāda: What is that?

Man: What?

Prabhupāda: What is this book?