Volume One

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Invocation

1

CHAPTER ONE

Childhood

2

CHAPTER TWO

College, Marriage, and Gandhi’s Movement

3

CHAPTER THREE

“A Very Nice Saintly Person”

4

CHAPTER FOUR

“How Shall I Serve You?”

5

CHAPTER FIVE

The War

6

CHAPTER SIX

An Unknown Friend

7

CHAPTER SEVEN

Jhansi: The League of Devotees

8

CHAPTER EIGHT

New Delhi – “Crying Alone in the Wilderness”

9

CHAPTER NINE

A Resident of Vṛndāvana

10

CHAPTER TEN

“This Momentous Hour of Need”

11

CHAPTER ELEVEN

The Dream Come True

12

CHAPTER TWELVE

The Journey to America

13

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Butler, Pennsylvania: The First Testing Ground

14

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Struggling Alone

15

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

“It Will Not Be Possible to Assist You”

16

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Free to Preach

17

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

On the Bowery

18

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Breaking Ground

19

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Planting the Seed

20

CHAPTER TWENTY

Stay High Forever

21

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Beyond the Lower East Side

22

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

“Swami Invites the Hippies”

23

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

The Price Affair

24

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

New Jagannātha Purī

25

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

“Our Master Has Not Finished His Work”

26

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

Swamiji’s Departure

27

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

India Revisited: Part 1

28

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

India Revisited: Part 2

29

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

Unlimited Opportunity, Limited Time

30

CHAPTER THIRTY

London: A Dream Fulfilled

31

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE

A Threat Against ISKCON

32

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO

India: Dancing White Elephants

33

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

A Lot of Ground to Be Covered

34

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

Jet-Age Parivrājakācārya

35

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE

“This Remote Corner of the World”

36

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

In Every Town and Village

Foreword to the First Printing of Śrīla Prabhupāda-līlāmṛta – Volume One (Chapters 1–11)

Foreword to the First Printing of Śrīla Prabhupāda-līlāmṛta – Volume Two (Chapters 12–21)

Foreword to the First Printing of Śrīla Prabhupāda-līlāmṛta – Volume Three (chapters 22–28)

Foreword to the First Printing of Śrīla Prabhupāda-līlāmṛta – Volume Four (Chapters 29–36)

Prayer to the Lotus Feet of Kṛṣṇa

Mārkine Bhāgavata-dharma

Books of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

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