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Dandavats...i happened across this article...and its a sweet story...so here it is.

A Spiritual Happening on the Lower East Side

Srila Prabhupada and the first kirtana recording in the West.

The year is 1997, and Brahmananda Dasa, one of Srila Prabhupada's earliest disciples, is driving through a residential area in Miami Beach. He momentarily halts at a stop sign in his big van, which has a "Hare Krishna" sticker on its rear bumper. Conspicuously, a car follows slowly from behind. As it pulls up, the person in the passenger seat, a middle-aged woman, asks, "Brahmananda?" She is Carol Kallman. Driving the car is her husband, Alan. Together, they had produced Srila Prabhupada's first album, "Krishna Consciousness," some thirty years earlier. Before any of Prabhupada's books were available for distribution, there was only this record album, and Brahmananda and the Kallmans were at the heart of it. Now, seemingly by happenstance, they would meet again, brough

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