All the devotees and public bowed down
Badrinarayan das: It was the Family Dog Auditorium. I think it used to be the Shrine Auditorium, it was the Family Dog Auditorium. Bhavananda had gotten a bunch of barbecue grills and filled them with briquettes and bags and bags of frankincense incense, so the whole place was just billowing with frankincense incense. But I remember that a bunch of the Hell's Angels followed us. They got their fighting spirit out of them, and they followed the carts.
So when we got to the Family Dog Auditorium…Prabhupada came on the stage a little bit later, we were all inside the auditorium. When Prabhupada came in, all the devotees bowed down; and there was something so magnanimous and also heavy about Prabhupada's presence that so many other people bowed down. It's not an unusual occurrence that people would just instinctively bow down, that here's a saintly person. I remember that it was a wood floor and when they bowed down, there was a couple of Hell's Angels next to me and their chains and billy clubs and everything fell out and hit the floor; and I was thinking how when all the Lord Brahmas all bowed before Krishna, all their helmets. So was thinking that Prabhupada in Kali-yuga, even the Hell's Angels with all their billy clubs and helmets and everything. And Prabhupada started the lecture…it was the most amazing thing because they were hippies and college students from UC Berkeley and San Jose State, and then there were these Hell's Angels and there were Black Panthers, it was just such a montage. And Prabhupada started off his lecture by saying, "My dear frustrated youth of America…"
Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada – Remembrances by Yadubara Dasa
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