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Swami in a strange land, how Krishna came to the West : the biography of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Joshua M. Greene ; foreword by Klaus K. Klostermaier

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Joshua M. Greene ; foreword by Klaus K. Klostermaier

how Krishna came to the West : the biography of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

In 1965, a seventy-year-old man set sail from India to America with a few books in his bag, pennies in his pockets, and a message of love in his heart. He landed in New York at the peak of the revolutionary counterculture movement of the '60s, and went on to spark a global spiritual renaissance that led to the creation of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Through the depiction of Prabhupada as both an enlightened luminary and a personable, funny, and conscientious individual, Swami in a Strange Land shows why cultural icons such as George Harrison and Allen Ginsberg incorporated Prabhupada's teachings into their lives, and why millions more around the globe embarked upon the path of bhakti yoga in his footsteps. Set in locations as far ranging as remote Himalayan caves and the gilded corridors of Paris's City Hall, Swami in a Strange Land traces the rise of Eastern spirituality in the West--and in particular, the rise of yoga culture and vegetarianism and the concepts of karma and reincarnation--, Source other than Library of Congress

Part One. India -- Part Two. America -- Part Three. The world

Biography of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada