Swami prabhupada biography books

Śrīla Prabhupāda-līlāmṛta tells the story of a remarkable individual and a remarkable achievement. The individual is A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda: philosopher, scholar, religious leader, saint.

The achievement is the revolutionary transplantation of a timeless spiritual culture from ancient India to twentieth-century America.

This second volume begins in 1971. In the West, Śrīla Prabhupāda had firmly established the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, which his disciples were expanding in his absence.

This volume chronicles Śrīla Prabhupāda’s triumphant return to India and his plans for constructing temples in three crucial locations: Bombay, the center of India’s wealth and business; Vṛndāvana, the sacred village where Lord Kṛṣṇa lived and sported; and Māyāpur, the holy birth site of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who had inaugurated the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement some five hundred years earlier.

These are vigorous years spent building a spiritual society in I