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Accept my blessings. I am always thinking of your separation feelings. Please do your duty nicely and Krishna will help …

Prabhupāda and Kīrtanānanda flew to Moscow. There they walked around the terminal, observing what Prabhupāda called “propaganda pictures.” After a …

The wall of heat that greeted them felt good to Prabhupāda. He had come for this. Inside the airport terminal, …

After Prabhupāda and Kīrtanānanda claimed their luggage and cleared customs, they stood on the sidewalk outside the terminal. Although Prabhupāda …

The small Ambassador taxi drove through streets well known to Śrīla Prabhupāda. Nighttime traffic was light – an occasional taxi …

Just a few years before, Prabhupāda had sold Back to Godhead magazines, solicited donations, and printed his Śrīmad-Bhāgavatams here. In …

But India’s leaders were rejecting Vedic culture and imitating the West. Although some Indians still professed to follow Vedic culture, …

As the taxi drove through Old Delhi and approached Chawri Bazaar, Prabhupāda saw the printing and paper shops, now closed …

Chawri Bazaar led to side streets that led to the narrow lanes of Chippiwada, where upright metal posts blocked autos …

It was locked. As they pounded loudly, Prabhupāda called out for Sri Krishna Pandit until a man came to the …

The room was bare and dusty, and the bulb hanging from the ceiling created stark light and shadows. On the …

“This is the room where I compiled Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,” Śrīla Prabhupāda told Kīrtanānanda. “I slept here. And over here was my …

Although Kīrtanānanda was uncomfortable in his suit and wondered when he would be able to get rid of it, he …

In the afternoon Prabhupāda developed a cough. It didn’t seem serious, and he said he wanted to travel the next …

The doctors came again. Prabhupāda’s temperature was over 104. They gave teas and Ayurvedic powders while Kīrtanānanda looked on skeptically. …

While Prabhupāda slept, Kīrtanānanda wrote a letter to his Godbrothers in New York.

I know you would like me to say straight out my opinion as to how He is, and that is …

Kīrtanānanda also asked the New York devotees to call the devotees in San Francisco, Santa Fe, and Boston and have …

The next day Śrīla Prabhupāda’s fever was down to 100.6. He was still sick, but he talked again of going …

For several days Kīrtanānanda visited the homes of these pious Hindus. He played the record on his portable phonograph, chanting …