Srila Prabhupada’s Achievements between 1965 to 1977!
Srila Prabhupada’s Achievements between 1965 to 1977 are miraculous because it is unimaginable for a normal human being. Only a person empowered by Krishna can do such wonders.
Just read some of Srila Prabhupada’s Achievements between 1965 to 1977:
–> Srila prabhupada left for America in the age of 70 that is the age others take rest.
–> He suffered two severe heart attacks on board Jaladhoodha ship on the way to America.
–>. He entered America with just around Rs.40 in his hand.
(The Poem written by Srila Prabhupada on arrival in the USA! READ HERE!)
–> He founded ISKCON, the International Society for Krsna Consciousness in New York after a struggle for one year.
–> He initiated approximately five thousand disciples.
–> He established 108 Krsna temples on six continents
–> Thirty-two new temples (almost three a month) were opened in a single year, between 1970 and 1971.
–> He inaugurated the Rathayatra Festival of Lord Jaganatha in major cities around the globe.
–> He introduced the “Sunday Love Feast” and other prasadam (sanctified food) distribution programs.
–> He created the world’s first chain of vegetarian restaurants.
–> He gave thousands of daily lectures out of which over 2,200 were recorded and archived.
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–> Out of 100s of his conversations, over 1,300 were recorded and archived.
–> He recorded more than twenty albums of devotional music.
–> He published the monthly magazine, Back to Godhead, which he called the backbone of his movement selling more than a million copies per issue in 70s.
–> He built major temples in Bombay and Vrndavana, and founded a spiritual city at Mayapur. All became international sites of pilgrimage.
–> He established Gurukula to provide education in the principles of devotional service.
–> He founded the Bhaktivedanta Institute to advance Krsna consciousness within the scientific community
–> He unearthed and renovated the holy places of Lord Caitanya’s pastimes.
–> He set up farm communities.
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–> He wrote more than 6,000 letters to the disciples.
–> More than seventy hours of documentary film footage was taken on him..
–> He wrote Seventy books
–> He founded the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT) in 1972, to produce his books.
–> By 1976, over 55,000,000 literatures had been published in twenty-five languages and distributed in almost every country, making the BBT the world’s largest publisher of Indian religious and philosophical texts.
–> One printing alone of Bhagavad-gita As It Is required 76 train cars to ship the paper needed to print it.
–> He completed the entire Caitanya Caritamrta manuscript (seventeen volumes) in eighteen months.
–> He circled the globe fourteen times, visiting 24 countries.
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