Back home with Prabhupada

[Guest guest]

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

On September 13 we celebrate Srila Prabhupada's arrival in USA, at Boston

Commonwealth port. This morning we listened to Srila Prabhupada's lecture on

Srila Bhaktisiddhanda Saraswati's disappearance day in Atlanta on March 2,

1975, where he mentioned his arrival. He said:

 

 

"So when I was seventy years old I decided, "Now I must do and execute the

order of my Guru Maharaja. And thus this movement was started in 1965 from

New York. And I was not very much hopeful because it is very difficult task,

just opposite the European and Western culture. I came... When I first came,

I had no money. So I got a free passage through some Indian steam navigation

company. So I came by ship. So when I was on the ship at Boston port,

Commonwealth port, I was thinking that "I have come here. I do not know what

is the purpose because how the people will accept this movement? They are

differently educated, and as soon as I will say, 'So, my dear sir, you have

to give up meat-eating and illicit sex and no intoxication and gambling,'

they will say, 'Please go home.' " (laughter)"

 

 

Thank you, Srila Prabhupada, for having not gone back home alone.

 

Begging to remain

 

your servant,

Madana-mohana das