Swami's Flock Chants in the Park to Find Ecstasy

This article titled as "Swami's Flock Chants in the Park to Find Ecstasy," was published in The New York Times, Octorber 10, 1966, in New York City. 

Sitting under a tree in a Lower East Side park and occasionally dancing, 50 followers of a Hindu swami repeated a 16-word chant for two hours yesterday afternoon to the accompaniment of cymbals, tambourines, sticks, drums, bells and a small reed organ. 

Brahmananda Dasa : The first dancing was in Tompkins Square Park, when Prabhupada sang in the park, that first time Achyutananda and I danced. Prabhupada had the kirtan for three hours, nonstop, he was singing. The New York Times, they came to that kirtan and they took a photograph of Achyutananda and myself and Prabhupada sitting there. The caption was: "Swami's flock finds ecstasy in the park." Prabhupada said the Times of New York was the most important newspaper in the world. "This article," he said, "marked the beginning of my movement."