Volume One of Shyamasundar’s long-awaited memoir is now available. This is the most intimate, detailed, and exciting account yet of Bhaktivedanta Swami’s amazing adventures in the dawn of the Hare Krishna movement. Volume One describes the Swami’s halcyon days in San Francisco and London, 1967-1970, including the real story of Lord Jagannath’s advent in the western world, meeting the Beatles and, with them, broadcasting the Mahamantra around the globe. These, and a hundred more never-heard-before stories, along with 128 rare photos, will transport you into those magic days: chasing “rhinos” with the Swami.
“There have been other memoirs involving His Divine Grace, to be sure, but the attention to detail and visceral manifestation of time and place found in Shyamasundara’s book is something new. It has never before been accomplished in quite this way. His street savvy, intelligence, common sense, and love for Prabhupada all come through with a tangible freshness, allowing readers entrance into the narrative in a very real way…A must read for all students of philosophy, the 60s counterculture, cosmic consciousness, eastern thought, and life itself.”
—- (a Dasa), author of 30 books on eastern spirituality.
With its fast pace and novelistic style, Volume One of “Chasing Rhinos With The Swami” has become a runaway best-seller for all audiences and, with only a limited number of books remaining in this first edition, NOW is the time to enjoy this book while it’s still available from the
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Worth waiting for!!! Shyamasundar pr. has created a time-capsule in which the reader travels back to experience seemingly every detail of Iskcon’s early days. The book describes an endless stream of magical moments during Prabhupada’s entrance onto the world stage. An uniquely consummate writer, Shyamasundar pr. propels the narrative with a dramatic flare of “what’s going to happen next?” His research is impeccable, and his penchant for detail paints a strikingly detailed picture of each place, person, and encounter. There is no book about Prabhupada that has achieved such a vivid picture – one in which the reader can relive the adventure emotionally. Shyamasundar pr. may be one of the luckiest people on the planet to have had such intimate association with Srila Prabhupada, but we are also some of the luckiest if we read his book and join the journey with him. And we’re lucky because he has worked so many years to bring us such a brilliant and loving legacy of Srila Prabhupada’s greatness.