Following Srila Prabhupada Part 4 covers July 1972 till July 1973.
In this twelve month period Srila Prabhupada visited Amsterdam, England, the United States, I
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Following Srila Prabhupada Part 4 covers July 1972 till July 1973.
In this twelve month period Srila Prabhupada visited Amsterdam, England, the United States, India, Jakarta, but overall spent a lot of time preaching in India.
The film starts with Srila Prabhupada inspecting the construction of the first building at Mayapur, and concludes with the 1973 London Rathayatra Festival.
And so much interesting nectar in between.
The London 1973 Rathayatra festival is amazing.
Srila Prabhupada was not feeling well and devotees were advising him to go somewhere and rest.
Instead he decided to go to London for the Rathayatra.
It was a very tight schedule so the devotees arranged to transfer Srila Prabhupada from the plane at the airport to a helicopter and flew him to Bhaktivedanta Manor in the helicopter.
Very small, and a very uncomfortable ride for Srila Prabhupada.
So immediately Prabhupada went in a car to the Rathayatra festival in London.
Everyone was expecting that Prabhupada would sit on the Vyassasana on Lady Subhadra's cart and maybe after a short distance he would leave the procession to take rest after his long international flight and unsettling helicopter ride.
Srila Prabhupada surprised everyone by dancing in front of Lord Jagannatha's cart for the entire parade.
Prabhupada's dancing was so enlivening that the whole crowd was ecstatic.
Even the police were asking the devotees to stop their leader from dancing because his dancing was creating so much disturbance.
But, of course, Prabhupada did not stop dancing.
So it is quite amazing.
Please take the time to watch this film which documents only 12 months of Srila Prabhupada's world tour but contains so much transcendental nectar.
