On the Lower East Side by Srila Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

Dec 1, 1979 | Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, Srila Prabhupada's Biography, Volume-14 Number-12

"Thousands of young people were walking the streets, not simply intoxicated or crazy (though they often were), but searching for life's ultimate answers." July 1966. America's first Hare Krsna center, a storefront on Second Avenue, in New... read more

Moving to Second Avenue by Srila Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

Nov 1, 1979 | Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, Srila Prabhupada's Biography, Volume-14 Number-11

In the early summer of 1966, Srila Prabhupada was sharing a Bowery loft with a young American friend. But when the boy went crazy on drugs and drove him out, suddenly Prabhupada found himself in the street, homeless and alone. Srila Prabhupada decided to... read more

A Test from Krsna by Srila Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

Oct 1, 1979 | Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, Srila Prabhupada's Biography, Volume-14 Number-10

By the summer of 1966, a fair number of people were making their way to Srila Prabhupada's Bowery loft to chant Hare Krsna with him and hear him lecture on Bhagavad-gita. But his potential supporters in India remained less than helpful, and soon... read more

The Bowery Lectures by Srila Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

Sep 1, 1979 | Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, Srila Prabhupada's Biography, Volume-14 Number-09

An Excerpt from the Biography of a Pure Devotee The Swami (as Srila Prabhupada was known to the hip crowd who visited his Bowery loft) continued with his Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening lectures on Bhagavad-gita. He would begin punctually at eight... read more

Enlightenment on Skid Row by Srila Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

Aug 1, 1979 | Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, Srila Prabhupada's Biography, Volume-14 Number-08

Now that Srila Prabhupada had left Seventy-second Street and had moved downtown, it wasn't long before new people were coming to see him. 'After a few minutes … the sound of the cymbals and the incense . . . we weren't in the Bowery any longer. We... read more

On the Bowery by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

Jul 1, 1979 | Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, Srila Prabhupada's Biography, Volume-14 Number-07

After he arrived in America, in September of 1965, Srila Prabhupada stayed at a family's apartment in Butler, Pennsylvania, nest at an impersonalist yogi's asrama in uptown Manhattan, and then in a tint room on Seventy-second Street. By March of 1966, a few... read more