ISBN10: 0892133570, ISBN13: 9780892133574, [publisher: Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, Los Angeles] Hardcover Hardcover. This biography tells the story of a remarkable individual and a remarkable achievement. A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada - philosopher, scholar, religious leader and saint - was responsible for the revolutionary transplantation of a timeless spiritual culture from ancient India to 20th century America. The first volume of this biography begins with the story of the events leading up to Srila Prabhupada's meeting with his guru, an encounter that ignited a slow burning flame of desire to take Krsna consciousness to the Western world. His early life was a period of patient and transcendent determination as he prepared for a mission that would later be crowned with astounding success. In August and September of 1965 Srila Prabhupada travelled alone aboard a steamship from India to New York City, with no more than the equivalent of eight dollars in his pocket and no institutional backing, but with an unshakable faith in Lord Krsna and the instructions of his spiritual master. His encounter with America took place in an era in which the children of those who fought World War II were leading a sweeping revolt against a society losing its soul to a godless mass consumerism.Into this milieu Srila Prabhupada brought a vision of a new kind of society, a society born of a radical transformation of human conciousness from materialism to the loftiest ...