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CHAPTER ONE
Childhood We would be sleeping, and father would be doing ārati. Ding ding ding – we would hear the bell …
Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.1
We would be sleeping, and father would be doing ārati. Ding ding ding – we would hear the bell and …
Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.1
IT WAS JANMĀṢṬAMĪ, the annual celebration of the advent of Lord Kṛṣṇa some five thousand years before. Residents of Calcutta, …
Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.1
The next day (September 1, 1896), in a little house in the Tollygunge suburb of Calcutta, a male child was …
Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.1
An astrologer did a horoscope for the child, and the family was made jubilant by the auspicious reading. The astrologer …
Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.1
Abhay Charan De was born into an India dominated by Victorian imperialism. Calcutta was the capital of India, the seat …
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Abhay’s home at 151 Harrison Road was in the Indian section of north Calcutta. Abhay’s father, Gour Mohan De, was …
Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.1
An entire block of properties on either side of Harrison Road belonged to Lokanath Mullik, and Gour Mohan and his …
Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.1
Among the daily visitors was Abhay Charan, accompanying his mother, father, or servant.
Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.1
Śrīla Prabhupāda: I used to ride on the same perambulator with Siddhesvar Mullik. He used to call me Moti (“pearl”), …