The First Meeting – Ultadanga, Kolkata

HH Indradyumna Swami: We recently visited Ultadanga, the sacred place where Srila Prabhupada first met his eternal spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. It was during this profound encounter that Abhay Charan, as he was known at the time, offered his obeisances and received the life-changing instruction to spread Krishna Consciousness in the English language. After the meeting, his friend—who had urged him to meet Srila Bhaktisiddhanta—asked, “What is your opinion of this sadhu?” Srila Prabhupada replied, “Here is the right person who has taken up Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s mission, and now it will be distributed.”