By Joshua M. Greene
In 1965, a seventy-year-old man—soon to be referred to as Prabhupada—set sail from India to the USA with a number of books in his bag, pennies in his wallet, and a message of affection in his middle. He landed in manhattan on the top of the innovative counterculture move of the ’60s, and went directly to spark an international religious renaissance that resulted in the construction of the foreign Society for Krishna Consciousness,
which has replaced thousands of lives.
Through the depiction of Prabhupada as either an enlightened luminary and a personable, humorous, and conscientious person, Swami in a wierd Land exhibits why cultural icons reminiscent of George Harrison and Allen Ginsberg integrated Prabhupada’s teachings into their lives, and why thousands extra world wide embarked upon the trail of bhakti yoga in his footsteps.
Carefully researched, skillfully crafted, and terribly intimate, this narrative follows Prabhupada as he rises from an nameless monk to a world-renowned non secular chief. Set in destinations as a ways ranging as distant Himalayan caves and the gilded corridors of Paris’s urban corridor, Swami in an odd Land lines the increase of japanese spirituality within the West—and specifically, the increase of yoga tradition and vegetarianism and the innovations of karma and reincarnation.
A amazing trip into the inner most dimensions of the human event, Swami in a wierd Land indicates how one guy with a dream can switch the world.
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