Flashbacks 3

After spending a good while in India, I traveled to the London Center, Bhaktivedanta Manor in the winter of 1982. While my friends assured me that it never snowed in London, it turned into the coldest winter since Napoleon invaded Russia back in 1812.

Bhaktivedanta Manor had been donated to the Hare Krishna movement by George Harrison of the Beatles. I had the opportunity to play guitar in his basement studio, where some of the devotees recorded transcendental music.

I wasn't able to stay long: It was invited to Johannesburg, South Africa, to participate in some educational yoga programs that had been organized, and I was happy to escape the freezing climate.

After three months in Johannesburg, I received a phone call that would change my life. I was invited to San Jose, California, where Bhakti Sudhir Goswami had organized an ashram.

Bhakti Sudhir Goswami