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CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN
Opening a Temple in Los Angeles Los Angeles January 6, 1968 The building at 5364 West Pico Boulevard was a …
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Opening a Temple in Los Angeles
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Los Angeles January 6, 1968
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The building at 5364 West Pico Boulevard was a small storefront in a middle-class black neighborhood of Los Angeles. With …
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The room was stark. A Brijabasi print of Lord Kṛṣṇa sat atop the altar, which was no more than two …
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Prabhupāda, dressed in saffron robes and walking with a cane, crossed the room, opened the front door, and stepped outside. …
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Prabhupāda stepped back inside and shut the door. Aniruddha, Dayānanda, his wife Nandarāṇī, and their three-week-old daughter Candramukhī were there …
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Prabhupāda looked around carefully. “All right,” he said, “let us have kīrtana. And picking up the mṛdaṅga, he sat down …
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No sooner had he begun to play, however, when Jānakī rushed over to him, carrying the tamboura. “Swamiji,” she said, …
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“All right.” Prabhupāda smiled, trading instruments with Jānakī. “Then I will play tamboura.”
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As Śrīla Prabhupāda softly plucked the metal strings, his disciples clapped the one-two-three rhythm. Prabhupāda chanted: “Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, …
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As Prabhupāda’s disciples sat earnestly chanting before him – some of them looking up to him, others singing with eyes …

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