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Several months later, I came across a card with the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra on it. As explained to me later, a transcendental seed had been planted that could eventually ripen into love of Godhead. The mantra stuck in my mind, and I soon regretted that I had not taken a magazine from the devotees. The chanting was captivating, and it made me feel very comfortable. I first heard the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra in Greenwich Village, New York, in late 1968. The existence of a Creator is only common sense-but who is God? Who am I? I had been to Hebrew School and had studied Oriental philosophy, but I could never get satisfying answers to my questions. I have always been interested in religion, but before I met the Kṛṣṇa conscious devotees, somehow I did not have the proper perspective needed to inquire fruitfully about spiritual life. God, spiritual life-those were such vague terms to me before I met Śrīla Prabhupāda. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaĪnd Bob Cohen a Peace Corp worker in India org to download in epub format.Ĭonversations between His Divine Grace A.C. To download the entire book you may click the link at bottom for entire book on pdf, or you can visit Krishna Path. There, in a small bamboo hut, he finds a teacher who is able to tell him everything he ever wanted to know. A search for meaning carries Bob Cohen, a young American Peace Corps worker halfway around the world, to an ancient village in the midst of West Bengal.

His writings constitute a veritable library of Vedic philosophy, religion, literature and culture.This begins a new series of a True account. In spite of such a vigorous schedule, Srila Prabhupada continued to write prolifically. In the last ten years of his life, in spite of his advanced age, Srila Prabhupada circled the globe twelve times on lecture tours that have took him to six continents.

In the years that followed, Srila Prabhupada wrote a commentary on the Bhagavad-gita and in 1944, without assistance, started an English fortnightly magazine.

Srila Prabhupada became his student, and eleven years later (1933) at Allahabad, he became his formally initiated disciple.Īt their first meeting, in 1922, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura requested Srila Prabhupada to broadcast Vedic knowledge through the English language. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, a prominent devotional scholar and the founder of sixty-four branches of Gaudiya Mathas (Vedic institutes), liked this educated young man and convinced him to dedicate his life to teaching Vedic knowledge in the Western world. He first met his spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami, in Calcutta in 1922.

His Divine Grace Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ( अभय चरणारविन्द भक्तिवेदान्त स्वामी प्रभुपाद)was born as Abhay Charan De on 1 September 1896 in Calcutta, India.

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