Śrīla Prabhupāda-līlāmṛta tells the story of a remarkable individual and a remarkable achievement. The individual is A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda: philosopher, scholar, religious leader, saint. The achievement is the revolutionary transplantation of a timeless spiritual culture from ancient India to twentieth-century America and the world.
Uniting Two Worlds takes us through six of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s most vigorous years of building his bhakti-yoga movement, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. In this volume Śrīla Prabhupāda is at the heart of a unique social phenomenon – an ancient, practice of the yoga of devotion from India being taken up by young Westerners in their own native cities. Of that phenomenon Śrīla Prabhupāda said: “India is like a lame man, and America is like a blind man. A blind man can carry a lame man, and together they can walk. Similarly, the combination of Indian spirituality and American technology can benefit the whole world.”
In the America of the 1970s, Śrīla Prabhupāda speaks out on such timely issues as nuclear war, women’s liberation, crime, and the social phenomenon of the "hippies." He presides over the gala Ratha-yātrā parade on New York’s Fifth Avenue and, assisted by the unlikely combination of a Ford and a Reuther, acquires a lavish mansion for ISKCON’s Detroit center in the form of the Fisher mansion. Later, as his budding religious movement is accused of “brainwashing” and prosecuted in court, he shows his disciples how to turn the challenge into a positive opportunity.