Prabhupada at Radha Damodara

The history of the Radha Damodara temple from when the six Gosvamis kept their Deities in the trees under which they slept. Srila Jiva Gosvami directed the original temple construction, completed in its present form 250 years ago. Srila Prabhupada spent many years in Vrindavan. In 1959 he moved into the temple, formally taking sannyasa. After leaving Vrindavana to preach in the West he often returned to Radha Damodara.

Srila Prabhupada the world famous founder of the Hare Krsna movement (ISKCON) lived in seclusion for 6 years before leaving India to spread the teaching of Bhagavan Sri Krsna all over the world. Srila Prabhupada passed his time in Vrndavana in a small room in the medieval temple of Thakura Radha Damodara besides the Yamuna river.
Read about his daily practices, prayers, realizations and profound experience of divinity during those quiet years of introspection and solitary life.