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Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.13
Butler, Pennsylvania: The First Testing Ground
Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.13
THE BUS CAME swinging out of the terminal into the daylight of mid-town Manhattan, riding along in the shadows of …
Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.13
Śrīla Prabhupāda had never before witnessed anything of such magnitude. He was now seeing for himself that American culture was …
Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.13
Of course, he had many times traveled the road from Delhi to Vṛndāvana, but it did not have many advertisements. …
Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.13
Prabhupāda felt compassion. The compassion of a Kṛṣṇa conscious saint had been explained in an age long ago by Prahlāda …
Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.13
The scenery gradually changed to the Pennsylvania countryside, and the bus sped through long tunnels in the mountains. Night came. …
Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.13
When the bus finally pulled into the terminal, it was past midnight. Gopal Agarwal was waiting with the family Volkswagen …
Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.13
This was not any of Gopal’s doing. His father, a Mathurā businessman with a fondness for sādhus and religious causes, …
Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.13
The unsuspecting Agarwals were “simple American people,” according to Sally Agarwal, who had met her Indian husband while he was …
Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.13
September 20 “BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA, HOME OF THE JEEP” read a granite plaque in the city park. Butler, famous as the …
Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.13
As the VW bus pulled into town, the predawn air was warm and humid. The morning edition of the Butler …
Śrīla prabhupāda-līlāmṛta 1.13
Śrīla Prabhupāda arrived at the Agarwals’ home – Sterling Apartments – at 4:00 A.M., and Gopal invited him to sleep …