By Joshua M. Greene
In 1965, a seventy-year-old man—soon to be often called Prabhupada—set sail from India to the USA with a couple of books in his bag, pennies in his wallet, and a message of affection in his center. He landed in long island on the top of the progressive counterculture circulate of the ’60s, and went directly to spark an international religious renaissance that ended in the production of the foreign Society for Krishna Consciousness,
which has replaced thousands of lives.
Through the depiction of Prabhupada as either an enlightened luminary and a personable, humorous, and conscientious person, Swami in an odd Land indicates why cultural icons comparable to George Harrison and Allen Ginsberg integrated Prabhupada’s teachings into their lives, and why thousands extra around the world embarked upon the trail of bhakti yoga in his footsteps.
Carefully researched, skillfully crafted, and terribly intimate, this narrative follows Prabhupada as he rises from an nameless monk to a world-renowned religious chief. Set in destinations as a ways ranging as distant Himalayan caves and the gilded corridors of Paris’s urban corridor, Swami in a wierd Land lines the increase of japanese spirituality within the West—and particularly, the increase of yoga tradition and vegetarianism and the ideas of karma and reincarnation.
A extraordinary trip into the private dimensions of the human adventure, Swami in an odd Land indicates how one guy with a dream can swap the world.
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