“How Srila Prabhupada, the founder of ISKCON, built a global spiritual movement from nothing”, First Post, November 12, 2022:
“On 16 November 1977, two days after he breathed his last at the holy city of Vrindavan in India, The New York Times paid a tribute in glowing terms to AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, the founder of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), the biggest global Hindu spiritual movement started in the 1960s when the means of communication and transport were far and few especially for those spiritual masters who wanted to take the message of the East to the West.
The NYT’s tribute gives a glimpse of the untold story of this great Master: “Swami founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in New York in 1965, shortly after he arrived in the city from Calcutta with $50 in rupees and a pair of cymbals: His aim was to spread the teachings of Lord Krishna, a Supreme deity in Hindu faith.”
It further added, “The Swami set up 108 temples in major cities around the world. Estimates of the number of his followers vary from relatively few to hundreds of thousands…..”
Read the full article at Firstpost.com
