Miracle on Second Avenue. The Hare Krishna Mantra Comes to the West: New York, San Francisco, and London 1966-69

The memoirs of Mukunda Goswami have always been awaited, as he was in the very first group of devotees initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1966, and has since faithfully served Prabhupada's movement. «Miracle on Second Avenue — the best description... of those wonderful days of endless horizons when everything was possible», — writes Shyamasundar Das Adhikari — a close companion of Mukunda Goswami in those early days — in his introduction to the book.
In 1965, at the age of seventy, Srila Prabhupada arrived in New York, determined to start a worldwide spiritual movement. After a harrowing sea voyage on the cargo ship Jaladuta, where he suffered two heart attacks, he set foot on American soil with just a few boxes of books and eight dollars. But there were people who wanted to help. This is where the vivid personal and detailed account of Mukunda Goswami begins, describing in detail the years from 1966 to 1969 and portraying the optimism and energy of Srila Prabhupada’s first followers.