My Days with Prabhupada: A Young Man’s Path to God in the Hare Krishna Movement (English Edition)

My Days with Prabhupada is the true story of Wally, a young man who runs and walks and stumbles along the mystical path of the Hare Krishna Movement desperately searching for the absolute truth. It follows him from the marijuana parties and psychedelic sessions on Manhattan’s Lower East Side through a haunted storefront in the mountains of New Mexico to the street corners of Paris’s Left Bank and finally to the serene holy places of India.

But most of all, we see Wally as he finds the teacher he has been looking for: Prabhupada, the founder of the Hare Krishna Movement. Our focus shifts to Prabhupada as he defeats Wally’s arguments with brilliant, stunning logic and the teachings of the ancient Vedas. We watch as Prabhupada gives Wally a new identity as Umapati and pulls him out of a life of sensual indulgence into a new world of spiritual peace, all by compassion, patience, and a surprisingly clear and simple explanation of the Bhagavad-Gita.

And we see the effect. We see Umapati’s metamorphosis from his first reluctant bowing at Prabhupada’s feet to his days of mourning after Prabhupada’s passing from this world.
Written by one of the first American followers of the Hare Krishna Movement, My Days with Prabhupada offers a brain-tingling journey for the spiritualist and the seeker and the skeptic as well.