INTRODUCTION
How This Book Came To Be In January 2015, at their annual meeting, the members of the Hungarian National Council (Közgyűlés) discussed how to implement ¼r¦la Prabhup§da’s desire to establish var£§ªrama-dharma in both the devotee and the non-devotee societies of Hungary. Thirty-five devotees met for three full days, hearing ¼r¦la Prabhup§da’s recorded instructions, reading ¼r¦mad-Bh§gavatam, and discussing what var£§ªrama and its implementation actually meant. We realised it was no small task! But we understood that ¼r¦la Prabhup§da had said that it was the unfinished fifty-per cent of his mission. While some devotees in ISKCON question the truth of that understanding, there is ample first-hand evidence to substantiate it. For our readers we present two such pieces of evidence: Describing an early-morning encounter with ¼r¦la Prabhup§da on August 10th 1977, Bhakti C§ru Mah§r§ja narrates: “One night ¼r¦la Prabhup§da could not sleep, and I was massaging his feet. At that time he was lamenting that his health was so bad and he had so much to do. I tried to console him saying, ‘¼r¦la Prabhup§da, 11
