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Tuesday, 2 July 1974



Vaikunthanatha went to Prabhupada's room early in the morning to return a dictation tape. He quietly opened the door and peered inside.



Vaikunthanatha: Srila Prabhupada was wrapped in a chaddar, sitting on his rocking chair, chanting softly on his beads. I was startled. Prabhupada was in a very, very…

Satsvarupa Goswami: I recall Prabhupada's power as a preacher and self-realised devotee; and I remember the amazing fact that Prabhupada was constantly speaking Krsna conscious realisations -- as he sat down for lunch, as he spoke to devotees in his room, or even as he went to sleep at night. His flow of devotional arguments shows that…

Since Prabhupada's visit to New Zealand in 1973, Tusta Krsna Swami had left ISKCON and was heading up his own group outside the jurisdiction of the local temple. Adamant that he would neither move back in the temple nor work co-operatively with ISKCON, he had given up the sannyasa dress and grown his hair.



However, Tusta Krsna had recently…

"I think you are also interested in revolution. We are interested in revolution also. But we are interested in revolution that will help people to feel peace themselves, whether they are communists or Marxists or whatever it is you like. We are trying to help people attain happiness because they are...."



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A late-morning speaking engagement at La Trobe University's Agora Theatre had been advertised widely. When Prabhupada entered the chilly hall he found it packed with students. Devotees held a kirtana on stage and introduced Srila Prabhupada, who, looking grave, began speaking very basically about the soul and the body and how this…