Srila Prabhupada said he ?walked through fire? to establish ISKCON. The risks he took are legendary and beyond the call of duty, even for great transcendentalists. Under the order of his spiritual master, he [Srila Prabhupada] left his family to live alone. Leaving the transcendental shelter of Vrndavana, he crossed the ocean, risked heart attacks, tolerated the taunting of uncultured westerners, the loneliness of a stranger in New York, the toll of world-travel at age seventy, the conspiracies of Godbrothers. (From Sivarama Swami?s, ?The Siksa Guru.? p. 129)