YouTube Chapters / Timestamps :

0:00 - Kirtan & Invocation
2:33 - Topic Introduction: Audience Shares Preaching Struggles
3:26 - Series Overview: Learning by Prabhupada's Example, Not Imitation
4:21 - Principle vs. Application (Sun & Matchstick Analogy)
5:49 - Preaching as True Happiness: The "Bhavananda" Name Story
6:46 - Ice Cream Philosophy vs. Candle Philosophy
8:50 - Suffering Without Feeling the Pain of Suffering
9:17 - The First Meeting: 1922, Ultadanga Road
9:52 - The Independence Debate with Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
12:41 - Walking Away Torn: Marriage & Family Responsibility
14:07 - Pharmaceutical Success in Allahabad
15:09 - 1928: First Fundraising & Preaching for the Prayag Temple
16:20 - 1932: Temple Inauguration and Initiation
18:28 - Sudden Collapse of the Dr. Bose Contract
19:54 - Second Business Venture: Smithson Labs, Bombay
21:01 - The "Especially Merciful" Verse and Bewilderment
21:57 - Twelve Meetings with Guru Maharaja: The Instruction to Preach in English
23:03 - Bombay Temple Established Amid Business Failure
23:54 - Third Venture: Kolkata, 1938
25:23 - Beginning the Bhagavad Gita Commentary Project
25:54 - Kolkata Business Fails; First Dream — "Take Sannyasa"
26:57 - Fourth Venture: Lucknow (₹40,000 Investment)
27:33 - Second Dream Repeats the Sannyasa Instruction
28:04 - Letters to World Leaders & the Ford Foundation
29:00 - Fifth Venture: Allahabad & the League of Devotees
30:09 - Premises Promise Withdrawn (Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan)
31:01 - Factory Burglarized — Everything Lost
31:34 - Sixth Venture: Vimla Tone Laboratories
32:14 - The Bhagavad Gita Manuscript Goes Missing
33:08 - Bhagavatam Given Away for Tea Biscuits
34:00 - Leaving Home in a Moment of Frenzy — Jhajjar
35:02 - Days of Turbulent Emotion, Chanting Japa
35:17 - Third Dream & the Poetic Justice of the Radha Gopinath Temple Land
36:31 - The Lonely 1950s: No Institutional, Financial, or Family Support
36:45 - No Money for a Simple Dhoti and Kurta
37:16 - 1954: The Most Intense and Lonely Phase, Preaching in Delhi's Cold
37:55 - The Printer Notices He Hasn't Eaten
38:18 - Turning Rejection into the Essay "No Time Disease"
38:46 - Heat Stroke and a Street Accident
39:16 - The Letter to the President of India
40:19 - Writing "Vrindavan Bhajan" in Deep Solitude
42:06 - The Johnny Walker Analogy: Staying Positive Amid Persecution
43:31 - The San Francisco Pastime: The Girl at 1 A.M.
49:39 - Q&A: Reflections on Prabhupada's Personal Life
52:22 - Q&A: Revisiting the Length of the Ultadanga Debate
53:44 - Challenging Popular Sentiment: The Gandhi Birthday Example
53:44 - New York 1966: The Bhagavad Gita and Vietnam War Analogy
55:29 - 1971: The India-Pakistan War Interview
56:53 - Understanding "Rascal": Chastisement as Compassion
59:02 - The "Life Comes from Chemicals" Debate
1:01:29 - A Personal Story: Nani and the Pond
1:05:35 - Closing Thoughts: Judging History by Actions, Not Language

Hare Krishna Prabhuji 💐🙏 all glories to srila prabhupadha 💐🙏

Hare Krishna prabhuji...humble pranam ...

HariBoll Prabhu ji! Great class! 🙏🙏

Hare Krishna dandavat pranam prabhuji 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you for sharing beautiful past time of shril prabhupada 😊

Hare Krishna

Humility personified...🙏🏽

Started this series and do not want to stop hearing this. So grateful to sharing your heart out and in such depth with research. Grateful to you for all the efforts.

Hare Krishna...what a session ....simply amazing....Wish this would just go and on ...wish more parts are coming up 🙏🙇🏻‍♀️✨🪷

Nice chap.. abhay charan..

Started this series and do not want to stop hearing this. So grateful to sharing your heart out and in such depth with research. Grateful to you for all the efforts.

Started this series and do not want to stop hearing this. So grateful to sharing your heart out and in such depth with research. Grateful to you for all the efforts.

Started this series and do not want to stop hearing this. So grateful to sharing your heart out and in such depth with research. Grateful to you for all the efforts.