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Los Angeles January 6, 1968

The building at 5364 West Pico Boulevard was a small storefront in a middle-class black neighborhood of Los Angeles. With …

The room was stark. A Brijabasi print of Lord Kṛṣṇa sat atop the altar, which was no more than two …

Prabhupāda, dressed in saffron robes and walking with a cane, crossed the room, opened the front door, and stepped outside. …

Prabhupāda stepped back inside and shut the door. Aniruddha, Dayānanda, his wife Nandarāṇī, and their three-week-old daughter Candramukhī were there …

Prabhupāda looked around carefully. “All right,” he said, “let us have kīrtana. And picking up the mṛdaṅga, he sat down …

No sooner had he begun to play, however, when Jānakī rushed over to him, carrying the tamboura. “Swamiji,” she said, …

“All right.” Prabhupāda smiled, trading instruments with Jānakī. “Then I will play tamboura.”

As Śrīla Prabhupāda softly plucked the metal strings, his disciples clapped the one-two-three rhythm. Prabhupāda chanted: “Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, …

As Prabhupāda’s disciples sat earnestly chanting before him – some of them looking up to him, others singing with eyes …

Śrīla Prabhupāda had been in India when Dayānanda and Nandarāṇī had moved to Los Angeles and found this little storefront. …

I am pleased that our desire is fulfilled by the Grace of Lord Krishna. Your specific duty is to chant …

Dayānanda and Nandarāṇī had written to Prabhupāda that people in Los Angeles weren’t as receptive as in San Francisco and …

In his room at the Rādhā-Dāmodara temple in Vṛndāvana, Prabhupāda had meditated on sending young men and women like Dayānanda …

After the kīrtana, Dayānanda drove Prabhupāda to his apartment two miles away. It was small – a front room, a …

Prabhupāda said his health was still not good. His sleep was often disturbed, and he spoke of a “gong-gong-gong” sound …

I may inform you in that connection that I am at the present moment physically unfit; I am having always …

Prabhupāda was in good spirits, however, despite his age and lingering sickness. He appeared strong, and six months in India …

Gone was the mindlessness of his young followers who had previously thought that Swamiji, because he was a pure devotee, …

Again Prabhupāda began taking his regular lunch – dāl, rice, capātīs, and a couple of sabjīs with ghee. One day …