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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.
Let There Be a Temple opens in 1971 in India. Śrīla Prabhupāda has already firmly established the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement in the West, and his leading disciples are now expanding it while he is traveling the globe. This fifth volume of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s biography chronicles Śrīla Prabhupāda's triumphant return to India, where with a small band of American and European disciples he launches an ambitious campaign to revive his countrymen’s spiritual concerns in an atmosphere of encroaching materialism.
Śrīla Prabhupāda plans to construct Kṛṣṇa temples in three crucial locations: Bombay, the sacred village of Vṛndāvana; and Māyāpur, the birthsite of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, inaugurator of the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement some five hundred years earlier.
In Bombay Śrīla Prabhupāda wages an agonizing battle to claim a rightfully purchased plot of land from a deceitful landowner. In Vṛndāvana he appeals to suspicious residents to support his disciples as they struggle to erect the Krishna-Balaram Mandir. And in Māyāpur he secures land near the war-torn border of Bangladesh and begins his most expansive project: a Vedic city centered on the three-hundred-foot-high Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir.
So vast is Śrīla Prabhupāda’s vision that even some of his intimate followers become skeptical. Yet Śrīla Prabhupāda's down-to-earth determination and resourcefulness bring about magnificent results for his beloved Lord Kṛṣṇa.
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.