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AT THE SAN Francisco airport Prabhupāda smiled but said little as the devotees greeted him with flowers and kīrtana. It …

Jayānanda was waiting with his station wagon to drive Prabhupāda to the private house they had rented north of the …

The ride up through the seaside cliffs was so winding and climbing that Prabhupāda became nauseated. And even lying down …

It was a modern single-story six-room house with a Japanese roof. A sign out front read Paradisio. Śrīla Prabhupāda noticed …

The devotees agreed that only Kīrtanānanda and Upendra would stay and serve Swamiji. They wanted Swamiji’s stay to be peaceful, …

That night Śrīla Prabhupāda felt pain in his heart and couldn’t sleep. And he didn’t rise early for translating. At …

Ever since Prabhupāda’s stroke, Kīrtanānanda had been regularly massaging Prabhupāda morning and evening. Kīrtanānanda would rub Prabhupāda’s head vigorously and …

As Prabhupāda walked on the beach, he pointed his cane towards some bubbles in the sand. “Just see,” he said. …

He walked for an hour, until his two young servants were both tired. “Do I tire you walking?” he laughed. …

By eleven o’clock the sun finally appeared over the mountains and through the clouds. Śrīla Prabhupāda, his head wrapped with …

In the evening Prabhupāda called Kīrtanānanda and Upendra into the large living room and led them in a subdued kīrtana, …

On July 8, after Prabhupāda had been at Paradisio for two days, Śyāmasundara and Mukunda drove up from San Francisco. …

Śrīla Prabhupāda had first gotten the idea for the festival while looking out the window of his room above Frederick …

Sitting with Prabhupāda on the beach, Mukunda told how all the devotees were working with great enthusiasm and how the …

“Do it nicely,” he cautioned them. “And don’t hurry it up.” The devotees should drive the truck slowly through the …

Mukunda and Śyāmasundara glorified Jayānanda: he drove all around San Francisco getting donations of fruits and flowers, found people to …

When the devotees asked what else they should do, Prabhupāda said that this was all – a procession, prasādam distribution, …

The next day, in the quiet afternoon, Prabhupāda was sitting in the living room, chanting on his beads. Upendra was …

It was great! It was wonderful! It was a beautiful day, they said. And Prabhupāda listened, moved by his disciples’ …

Śyāmasundara told how they had been going up a steep hill – Śyāmasundara had been driving, with his dog Ralph …