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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 and the world.
In this fourth volume, In Every Town and Village, we follow Śrīla Prabhupāda through the years of his greatest active participation in ISKCON, as its sole leader. During this period (March 1969 to June 1971), besides traveling throughout North America, establishing, solidifying, and inspiring communities of disciples, Śrīla Prabhupāda turned ISKCON into a truly international phenomenon. In Britain, with the active assistance of Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon, a recording of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra became a smash hit, and the movement took off. Śrīla Prabhupāda also introduced Kṛṣṇa consciousness to Australia, Malaysia, France, Africa, and the Soviet Union during these years.
Perhaps the most significant development during this period was the movement’s return to its spiritual motherland. In the fall of 1970, Śrīla Prabhupāda embarked on a dramatic tour of India with a select group of American disciples, whose rejection of Western materialism and zealous embrace of India’s ancient spiritual culture caused nothing less than a sensation among the Westernizing Indians, planting seeds for an authentic religious revival there.
Through all these travels and events, certain themes remain constant: Śrīla Prabhupāda’s towering and heroic spirituality, the powerfully transforming effect his presence had on those who chose to follow him, and the disciples’ ever-deepening realization and experience of the profound sublimity of a relationship with a genuine guru and saint.
Satsvarūpa dāsa Goswami was born on December 6, 1939. In July 1966, he met His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, and he became his initiated disciple in September of that year. Satsvarūpa dāsa Goswami began contributing articles to /"Back to Godhead"/, the magazine of the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement, and later became its editor in chief. In August 1967 he went to Boston to establish the first ISKCON center there.
Satsvarūpa dāsa Goswami was one of the original members selected by Śrīla Prabhupāda to form the Governing Body Commission of ISKCON in 1970. He remained as president of Boston ISKCON until 1971, when he moved to Dallas and became headmaster of the /gurukula/, the first ISKCON school for children.
In May 1972, on the appearance day of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, he was awarded the /sannyāsa/ (renounced) order by His Divine Grace Śrīla Prabhupāda and began traveling across the United States, lecturing in colleges and universities. In January 1974 he was called by Śrīla Prabhupāda to become his personal secretary and to travel with him through India and Europe. In 1976 he published /"Readings in Vedic Literature"/, a concise account of the Vedic tradition. The volume is now being studied at various universities. In 1977 Śrīla Prabhupāda ordered him to accept the duties of initiating guru, along with ten other senior disciples. In addition to his duties as a Governing Body Commissioner and an initiating guru, he has written many books, including the multivolume /"Śrīla Prabhupāda-līlāmṛta"/.
Ekendra Dāsa has appeared as a musician, comedian, singer-songwriter and producer on several recordings with Badahari Dāsa, Shelter, 108, Planet Cow Orchestra, and Yama Niyama Dasa Brahmachari. He also served as an editor at krishna.com and an associate editor for /“Back to Godhead”/ magazine. /“Śrīla Prabhupāda-līlāmṛta”/ is his first audiobook.