Young Abhay Charan (Srila Prabhupada’s legal name) was convinced and years later, Srila Prabhupada told his disciples that during that fortuitous meeting he had internally surrendered to his spiritual master and he was defeated by Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur. “I was happy to be defeated by my guru Maharaj”, Srila Prabhupada would happily recount,…
