Srila Prabhupada was born Abhay Charan to a deeply religious family in Calcutta in 1896. I had read while in Bombay that, in 1922, the young Abhay met his guru, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati. At the time of their first interaction, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta told him, “You are an educated young man. Why don’t you teach the message of Lord Chaitanya throughout the world?”
