The gargantuan pandal

Visakha Devi Dasi: On Sunday evening the crowd mushroomed to 20,000 . The gargantuan pandal was as packed with people as an Indian rush hour train. Prabhupada oversaw a marriage ceremony between Jorgen, who was Swedish, and Marian, an Australian. She wore a glamorous, ornate, red sari and Indian jewelry, complete with nose ring; he was in a starched hospital-white dhoti and kurta. They looked impressionable and inexperienced, but the audience awed and enthralled, burst into uproarious applause when Prabhupada said of their union, “This is the real United Nations.”