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Newsweek acknowledges Srila Prabhupada's contribution
Newsweek Nov 15, 2010
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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada's spiritual journey began early in life, but it wasn't until he went to New York from India in 1965 that the Hare Krishna phenomenon went global. Prabhupada, 69 years old at the time and holding about $7 to his name, made the trip alone from India to America on an ocean freighter. Soon after, he founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, the organization through which he recruited more followers to the denomination known as the Hare Krishna Movement. The movement was rooted in Hindu culture but embraced the idea of a single God. Prabhupada began touring the world on lecture tours, circling the globe 14 times in 11 years. In the photo, he speaks in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in 1969. He eventually wrote more than 70 books before he died in 1977 at 81. Today the ISKC [sic] says it has more than 1 million followers worldwide. go to story
Prabhupada in Newsweek
Newsweek acknowledges Srila Prabhupada's contribution
Newsweek Nov 15, 2010
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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada's spiritual journey began early in life, but it wasn't until he went to New York from India in 1965 that the Hare Krishna phenomenon went global. Prabhupada, 69 years old at the time and holding about $7 to his name, made the trip alone from India to America on an ocean freighter. Soon after, he founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, the organization through which he recruited more followers to the denomination known as the Hare Krishna Movement. The movement was rooted in Hindu culture but embraced the idea of a single God. Prabhupada began touring the world on lecture tours, circling the globe 14 times in 11 years. In the photo, he speaks in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in 1969. He eventually wrote more than 70 books before he died in 1977 at 81. Today the ISKC [sic] says it has more than 1 million followers worldwide. go to story
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His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Summary of Srila Prabhupada's Contributions
- more than 160 books published
- 108 temples and ashrams worldwide
- guest houses attached to major temples
- farms modelled after Vedic principles of "plain living and high thinking," varnashram-dharma
- established schools
- resurrected spiritualism in art in fields of painting, sculpture, drama, dance, music
- established vegetarian restaurants
- instituted "Food for Life", distribution of prasadam to millions all over the world
- founded a society having more than 5,000 initiated disciples and as many more lay followers
- engaged modern technology (typewriters, computers and printing press, radio, television, photography, video production, automobiles, aeroplanes, etc.) in devotional service to Krishna, thereby demonstrating practically the principles of total renunciation (yukta-vairagya, "utility is the principle").
Some of you may have seen this but in case you missed it: in the current issue of Newsweek magazine, there was an article on famous people who made their mark late in life. While many of the personalities were frivolous (e.g.cook Julia Childs), Srila Prabhupada was the fifth personality listed, with a very nice description of the significant work he did founding the Hare Krishna movement after age 69.
Gandhi was listed 6th!
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