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Upstairs I dumped my coat under a portrait of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, known as Prabhupada--who was sharing wall space with a microwave oven--and shuffled barefoot into the ceremony room. In here, His Divine Grace was represented in 3-D form; a lifesize, full color lacquered statue sat meditatively at the back of the room, surrounded by leafy ferns and silky robes...
...actually a god himself, Prabhupada introduced the god Krishna to America. In 1965, at age 69, Prabhupada left India to spread his spiritual message in the West. He arrived in America with about $8 in his pocket, one devotee says, but with complete faith that he would succeed in his mission. Twelve years later, Prabhupada had 10,000 western disciples. Today, there are 1000-2000 Hare Krishnas--or Vaishnavas, as they call themselves--in the Boston area...
...Prabhupada's "As It Is" translation of the Bhagavad Gita is central to the American Vaishnava movement. It was reading this book that led Dan Coggins, currently a member of the Boston temple, to convert. A Sanskrit translation of the Ghita he looked at didn't inspire him, but, three years ago, when he read Prabhupada's version, he was transfixed. "It was the most potent form of religion I could find...
...also accused, with others, of laundering drug money through an investment company, Prasadam Distributors, controlled by sect members. The new questions could hardly have come at a worse time for the Hare Krishna movement in the U.S. (membership: about 3,000). Since the death in 1977 of Founder Srila Prabhupada, the sect has split into mutually hostile factions. The internal trouble was dramatized publicly last fall when a disillusioned devotee bludgeoned the leader of the West Virginia temple, Kirtanananda Swami Bhaktipada. The assailant is serving a 15-month prison term in West Virginia...
...Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Indian businessman who, late in life, took monastic vows and in 1965 arrived in New York City to launch the Hare Krishna movement. But the swami died three years ago, and the building was turned into a samadh (shrine) in his memory. Two devotional rooms contain life-size (and unnervingly lifelike) statues of the founder made of resin...