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- His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the world's foremost master of the art of Bhakti, presents in basic principles in this introductory book. Srila Prabhupada came to America in 1965, at age sixty-nine, to fulfill his spiritual master's request that he teach the science of Krishna Consciousness throughout the English-speaking wrld. In a dozen years he published some seventy volumes of translation and commentary on India's Vedic literature, and these are now standard in universities worldwode. Meanwhile, traveling almost nonstop, Srila Prabhupada molded his international society into a worldwode confedereation of ashrams, schools, temples, and farm communities. He passed away in 1977 in Vrindavan, India, the place most sacred to Lord Krishn. His followers are carrying the movement he started.
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