Prabhupadas dancing white elephantsThe establishment of ISKCON, Lord Chaitanya's sankirtana mission, was the vital plunge of the plough of Sri Baladeva who, with His sandhini potency, becomes the mainstay of Srila Prabhupada's creation. At first glance, the exuberant devotees were seen as part of a temporary phenomenon, a strange but exotic way to escape the heartless grinding machination of a competition driven industrialized monstrosity. After a short time, when Srila Prabhupada took his disciples to India, he knew that the straw hut of existing parameters had been bulldozed by the charge of his 'dancing white elephants'. If even to find one albino elephant is rare, then many of them seen together and dancing cleverly, too, is an astonishing find; most unlikely. And yes, his fellow countrymen took notice, his God brothers too, one of whom was moved to call Srila Prabhupada a saktyavesa avatar. So impossible it was.
