In 1965, the prominent emissary of India's spiritual teachings, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada (1896-1977) brought to the West the chanting of Hare Krishna as propounded by Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the golden incarnation of Godhead in the present age of quarrel. A year later, he founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in New York City under very humble circumstances.

On the left, in New York, at Tompkins Square, Swami Prabhupada started single-handedly the Hare Krishna movement.