His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Jaladuta Voyage to America
On the nineteenth of September 1965, a cargo steamship named Jaladuta sailed into New York Harbor and docked at a Brooklyn pier at Seventeenth Street. An elderly Vaishnava sannyasi dressed in a simple cotton dhoti, an old shawl, neck beads, having a golden complexion and shaven head, stepped onto the shores of the Western world. It was Srila Prabhupada.
He had just forty Indian rupees and boxes containing his English commentaries of the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Although he arrived with little material resources—“I did not know whether to turn left or right”—he came strictly on the sacred order of his spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, to bring the holy names of Lord Chaitanya to the English-speaking world.
Thus began a spiritual revolution flooding the continents with the chanting of the Hare Krishna Mahamantra. In world history, monumental changes take place because of rare individuals who truly live by their ideals. Srila Prabhupada was such a personality.
A Global Spiritual Transformation
14 Times Around the Globe
In just eleven years between 1966 and 1977, Srila Prabhupada circled the earth fourteen times on lecture tours, meeting leaders, scholars, and youth across six continents.
108 Temples & Centers
Established eco-friendly farm communities, schools (gurukulas), magnificent stone temples in Vrindavan, Mayapur, London, Mumbai, and New York, and the world’s largest vegetarian food relief program.
70+ Authoritative Volumes
Translated the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, 30 volumes of Srimad-Bhagavatam, and 17 volumes of Caitanya-caritamrta, highly respected by university faculties worldwide.
Find joy in the path of selfless service infused with devotion to Krishna
“Where every action becomes a sacred offering, and the journey itself becomes a blissful communion with the divine.”