Remembering Srila Prabhupada’s Heart Attack
I remember how in San Francisco, we were informed by the New York devotees of your life-threatening stroke in 1967. And how, at your request, we stayed in the temple for almost twelve hours straight, praying to our Jagannatha Deities for your protection. I remember how, after some hours praying, the eyes of Lord Jagannatha…
I will Personally Take You There
When Swamiji was in India, Acyutananda das once sent pictures of him on Sankirtan in Calcutta. When we saw Swamiji chanting in the streets of India, all of us were just praying for the day we would be able to join him there. So, of course, Srila Prabhupada knew of my long-held desire to go…
Dancing to Srila Prabhupada’s Desire
In England, there were just six of us in the beginning. What happened in two years was incredible. It was just impossible. We didn’t know what we were doing. But we were just enthusiastic to try. That’s really something. So that is what I want you to try to catch—that ray, that moonbeam of Krishna…
Narada Muni Comes to Kirtan
One night an extraordinary thing happened. Prabhupada led the first kirtan and then gave a lecture. I sat on the floor just to his right with the harmonium, and after the lecture, I began leading the second Hare Krishna kirtan. All of a sudden, Srila Prabhupada’s voice cut through the auditorium with the potency of…
The Power of the Acaryas’ Songs
Srila Prabhupada’s harmonium playing was very unique. It had so much life to it, like a babbling brook, the water falling and hitting the rocks; and as it falls each rock makes a different sound. He would go all over and embellish in a way that wasn’t Indian or Western or any kind of style—it…
Srila Prabhupada’s Piece of Cane
In Paris, they put us out in the snow in the fields without any coats on, spread out in a big field, chanting without a microphone under a rock, with Mandakini behind me. It was completely again surreal, but all part of the tour. There is a series of photos of Srila Prabhupada and me…