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Srila Prabhupada Lila

August 29, 1970 : Calcutta

Satsvarupa: For the first time in almost three years, Prabhupada returned to India - to Calcutta, his hometown. Although it was late and the journey from Tokyo had been twelve hours, Prabhupada felt happy as he descended the stairway from the airplane. Some of Prabhupada's godbrothers and old Calcutta friends were present to receive him, and a kirtana party from the Chaitanya Matha was chanting. Indians crowded forward to place flower garlands around Prabhupada's neck, and as the garlands piled higher, Prabhupada removed them. But the garlands kept coming, and again they piled up, almost covering Prabhupada's face.

Prabhupada sat in the back seat, on his way from the airport to the home of Mr. Das Gupta on Hindustan Road. For the newcomers riding with him, however, Calcutta was foreign and unfamiliar.

Achyutananda and Jayapataka, however, were acclimatized to Calcutta and had learned to appreciate its culture. They had met high-class, cultured Bengalis who accepted them as sadhus despite their American birth. They had preached in many homes and had attracted curious crowds by chanting in public. They had not, however, achieved a solid foothold for ISKCON. But now Prabhupada had come to change that. He would preach wonderfully, just as he had done in America, and his disciples were eager to serve as his instruments. He would be their vital force, their inspiration, for he was empowered by Lord Chaitanya.

Reference: Srila Prabhupada Lilamrta Volume 4 - Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

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Srila Prabhupada Lila Satsvarupa: For the first time in almost three years, Prabhupada returned to India - to Calcutta, his hometown. Although it was late and the journey from Tokyo had been twelve hours, Prabhupada felt happy as he descended the stairway from the airplane. Some of Prabhupada's godbrothers and old Calcut...

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August 25, 1969 : Hamburg

Satsvarupa: When Prabhupada and Purusottama arrived in Hamburg, Shivananda, Krishna Dasa, and two other boys were at the airport to greet them. The temple was on Eppendorfer Weg, in a business area, next to a hair salon. The storefront, with its plate glass window painted blue except for an oval in the center, and "Radha Krishna Temple" painted over the window, could have been in New York or San Francisco except for the sign, "Internationale Gesellschaft Fur Krishna Bewusstsein-V."

The apartment Shivananda had rented for Prabhupada was two small rooms on the fifteenth floor of a modern building across the street from the storefront. Shivananda and a few others came before Prabhupada in his room, and Shivananda apologized that Krishna consciousness was so small in Hamburg. They had heard how devotees in Los Angeles were going out, sometimes fifty at a time, chanting and dancing in the streets and distributing hundreds of Back to Godheads. But in Hamburg Shivananda and another boy had gone out chanting only a few times, with little success.

They had no speaking engagements for Prabhupada, Shivananda said, and they weren't sure if many people would attend the temple lectures, although they had advertised around town with posters. Prabhupada smiled and sat back. "That's all right." And he began talking with Uttamasloka about his progress in translating Bhagavad-gita As It Is into German.

Reference: Prabhupada-Lila - Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

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tasmān nāmnā viṣṇu-rāta
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na sandeho mahā-bhāga
mahā-bhāgavato mahān

"The family in which a maha-bhagavata takes his birth is fortunate because due to the birth of a first-grade devotee the members of the family, past, present and future up to one hundred generations, become liberated by the grace of the Lord, out of respect for His beloved devotee. Therefore, the highest benefit is done to one's family simply by becoming an unalloyed devotee of the Lord."

(SB 1.12.17 purport)