(Srila Prabhupada throws flowers to the crowd and dances ecstatically at the grand finale)
"From my very childhood I was also worshiping Lord Jagannath. When I was six years old my father gave me a ratha and I was performing the Ratha yatra in my neighborhood. And now in the western world you are worshiping Lord Jagannatha so gorgeously and it pleases me very, very much."
(Srila Prabhupada Letter, June 10, 1974)
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THE PRABHUPADA CONNECTION
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San Francisco Rathayatra, 1974
(The Rathayatra carts wind their way through Golden Gate Park accompanied by Vishnujana Swami)
"If Jaggannatha desires, then I may also join you, but the idea of making San Francisco as New Jaggannatha Puri is my transcendental dream, and if you fulfill this dream, I shall be so much obliged to you all."
(Srila Prabhupada Letter, June 1, 1968)
