Jubilantly chanting devotees

Hari Sauri: On April 26, 1976, when our Air New Zealand flight touched down in Auckland. There at the airport to greet Srila Prabhupada were fifty or sixty jubilantly chanting devotees with drums, karatalas and guitars. It was quite a heterogeneous crowd, most of them from Tushta Krishna Swami's group. The local ISKCON temple has only about twelve men and women.

Kurma Dasa: Yasomatinandana, Auckland's temple president, started an exuberant kirtana. Prabhupada passed through customs quite quickly and emerged, looking radiant and in good health, smiling broadly at the energetic crowd of devotees. Rama dasa, Auckland's head pujari, carefully placed a garland of flowers around Srila Prabhupada's neck, applied yellow camphor-scented sandalwood paste to his forehead and touched his feet. Prabhupada walked quickly to the waiting car.