In the early summer of 1967, Srila Prabhupad decided his recovery from a stroke would go better in the friendlier climate of India. His New York disciples were concerned that he might decide to stay there. So they asked me to film him on the morning before going to the airport. Then we’d have a semblance of his presence to meditate on. Here’s a series of portraits of our blessed guru taken from my film Swamiji. We see him in his apartment in the rear court building of 26 Second Avenue. As I was putting a new roll of Agfa 8mm film into my camera, he asked me to show him how the unique plastic spool was constructed and how it went in. I did so, and he said, “They think of everything”. I took that to mean we his students also had to think of everything in pushing on his movement of Krishna Consciousness.
