Who is Śrīla Prabhupāda?", people often ask, and this is always a difficult question to answer, since Śrīla Prabhupāda always eclipsed conventional designations. On various occasions, people have said that he was a scholar, a philosopher, a cultural ambassador, a prolific author, a religious leader, a spiritual teacher, a social critic and a saint. Indeed, he was all that and more. Certainly, no one could ever have confused him with modern "gurus" merchants, who come to the Western world with diluted versions of habily embedded oriental spirituality (to satisfy our need for instant well-being, and exploit our well-documented spiritual ingenuity). Śrīla Prabhupāda was, on the contrary, indeed, a saint (sādhu) of profound